B Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 10023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9710-6607 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 319 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education
Fleeting Alliances and Frugal Collaboration in Piecework: A Video-Analysis of Food Delivery Work in India
Food delivery platforms are designed to match on-demand workers with jobs and then manage, monitor, and assess their performance. These platforms provide workers with a digital representation of delivery work. Once a worker accepts a delivery job they need to deal with the complexities of an unsettled urban landscape with varied infrastructures, traffic, and regulations. In particular, the Global South presents a demanding context for this type o…
An Exploratory Study of the Perceived Need for and Acceptability of a Healthy Frozen Meal Product Among Rural Corner Store Customers in North Carolina
This pilot study assesses barriers to obtaining healthy affordable food and the early-stage acceptability of a novel subsidized healthy frozen meal product designed to address food insecurity and nutritional status among corner store customers in rural North Carolina. A convenience sample of 50 customers were surveyed to examine the perceived availability of healthy food options, barriers to maintaining healthy diets, food shopping and consumptio…
Organising for thin places during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study aims to investigate some of the socio-spatial aspects of thickness and thinness in large Swedish organisations that arose from working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.The questions that this study aimed to answer are 'How do representatives who manage their staff by allowing or restricting WFH in public and private organisations describe how aspects of thickness, in terms of physical proximity and social relations, changed when …
Making Time: Pausing to Coordinate Video Instructions and Practical Tasks
Using video recordings as data to study how dyads follow instructional videos to achieve practical tasks, this article focuses on how participants coordinate the temporality of the video with that of their task by pausing the video. We examine three types of pausing, each displaying participants' online understanding of the instructions and different articulations between demonstrations and practical task: pausing to raise a correspondence proble…
Notes on running an online academic conference or how we got zoombombed and lived to tell the tale
column Notes on running an online academic conference or how we got zoombombed and lived to tell the tale Share on Author: Barry Brown University of Stockholm University of StockholmView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 27Issue 4July - August 2020 pp 16–21https://doi.org/10.1145/3406108Online:09 July 2020Publication History 3citation312DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations3Total Downloads312Last 12 Months228Last 6 weeks17 Get Citation A…
A Bip, a Beeeep, and a Beep Beep: How Horns Are Sounded in Chennai Traffic
Although the vehicle horn is a minimal audible unit for communication, we will show that its uses are impressively varied. Drawing upon a corpus of video recordings from dashcams, we show how drivers use the horn for creating awareness; how they target particular vehicles; and how they use it for warnings, for complaints, and in instructing the seeing of an aspect of an ambiguous traffic object. Drivers’ use of the horn involves, first, their sou…
Notes on the practices and appearances of e-scooter users in public space
Beyond “Same Time, Same Place”: Introduction to the Special Issue on Collocated Interaction
Does HCI scale: Scale hacking and the relevance of HCI
column Free Access Share on Does HCI scale?: scale hacking and the relevance of HCI Authors: Barry Brown Stockholm University Stockholm UniversityView Profile , Susanne Bødker Aarhus University Aarhus UniversityView Profile , Kristina Höök Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)View Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 24Issue 5September - October 2017 pp 28–33https://doi.org/10.1145/3125387Published:25…
Mediated Pedestrian Mobility: Walking and the Map App
While walking has always been mediated, the arrival of smartphones with multiple apps has changed how we walk and how we use apps. In this study, we investigate the relationships of pedestrian-in-the-street and app-user-on-screen actions. We display and describe a series of intersubjective practices constituted by, and with, walking while using a mobile device. The video data used are from a larger study of pedestrians using smartphones in urban …
Enjoying Machines
An argument that pleasure is a fundamental part of why we use technology, and a framework for understanding the relationship between pleasure and technology. The dominant feature of modern technology is not how productive it makes us, or how it has revolutionized the workplace, but how enjoyable it is. We take pleasure in our devices, from smartphones to personal computers to televisions. Whole classes of leisure activities rely on technology. Ho…
Word of mouth: Products, Conversations and Consumption
While there is a rich collection of studies of consumption and identity, the role of buying practices in ordinary conversations has been largely neglected. Minor items and major purchases regularly play a key role in furnishing our talk with topics, news, jokes and formulations of what kind of people we are. This paper unpacks the idea of post-purchase conversations contained within the common phrase “word of mouth.” What happens when products ar…
Reciprocity: Understanding online social relations
Reciprocity is a key concept for understanding social behaviour. It involves complex interactions of giving and returning. This paper examines the concept of reciprocity to think about, and design for, online social interactions. We argue that reciprocal exchange is symbolic insofar as it produces and enacts many forms of social life by drawing individuals into a relation of recognition. Indeed, reciprocal interactions underlie much online activi…
What it means to change lanes: Actions, emotions and wayfinding in the family car
In this paper we investigate how the sequential organization and settlement of disagreements comes to shape, and be shaped by, navigation. Using extracts of in-car interaction, we examine the gestalt of projectable aspects of road travel, car movements, and driver-navigator talk. Navigation when accomplished without maps relies on making sense of streets, landmarks, and signs, activities that are displayed through passengers and drivers giving di…
The reservations of the editor: The routine work of showing and knowing the film in the edit suite
The editing suite is one of the hidden spaces of film – a place where complex forms of embodied collaboration around screens take place. In this paper we present video-recorded data of an editor and director assembling a short documentary. From it we begin to describe editing work in terms of being aware of what media there are, assessing those materials and making them visible. We move on to consider the joint task of assessing clips once they a…
Experts at Play: Understanding Skilled Expertise
Developing from David Sudnow's accounts of expertise, this article examines the gameplay of Counter-Strike, a popular online game. Although Counter-Strike at first may seem an unsophisticated pursuit, players display remarkable dexterity developed through many hours of play. Through participating in the game and analyzing videos of gameplay, we examine Counter-Strike as an example of expert technology use. As players move beyond the mere physical…
Rotating maps and readers: Praxiological aspects of alignment and orientation
A longstanding topic in our notions of what geographic knowledge could be is the mental map, or, in its most recent form, mental spatial representations. In this paper we draw upon ethnomethodological critiques of cognition, and mind more generally, to re‐specify navigation, orientation and alignment in terms of human practices of navigating, orienting and aligning in particular settings. Our ambition in the paper is less to dismantle notions of …
Driving and ‘Passengering: Notes on the Ordinary Organization of Car Travel
We spend ever‐increasing periods of our lives travelling in cars, yet quite what it is we do while travelling, aside from driving the vehicle itself, is largely overlooked. Drawing on analyses of video records of a series of quite ordinary episodes of car travel, in this paper we begin to document what happens during car journeys. The material concentrates on situations where people are travelling together in order to examine how social units suc…
Leisure and CSCW: Introduction to Special Edition
Working the problems of Tourism
Maps and Journeys: An Ethno-methodological Investigation
The notion of the “cognitive map” has long been central to studies of maps, wayfinding, and navigation. In this article we provide an alternative approach to studying map use that re-situates these activities as shared social and cultural practices. The article draws on ethno-methodology and conversation analysis to study video of two examples of naturally organized map reading. We explore how journeying with maps is part of the in situ organizat…
Building a Context Sensitive Telephone: Some Hopes and Pitfalls for Context Sensitive Computing
The Order of Service: The Practical Management of Customer Interaction
This paper discusses a pervasive yet neglected form of social interaction, that between service staff and customers. Observational and video data from two different shop settings are used to explore three aspects of service interactions. First, queues are discussed, a mundane yet massively prevalent device for managing when and how customers are served. Queues depend on customers ability to 'work the queue', to be able to see who is queuing and t…
Tourism and mobile technology
Driving and ‘Passengering: Notes on the Ordinary Organization of Car Travel
We spend ever‐increasing periods of our lives travelling in cars, yet quite what it is we do while travelling, aside from driving the vehicle itself, is largely overlooked. Drawing on analyses of video records of a series of quite ordinary episodes of car travel, in this paper we begin to document what happens during car journeys. The material concentrates on situations where people are travelling together in order to examine how social units suc…
New Australopithecus boisei calvaria from East Lake Turkana, Kenya
The calvaria of an adult Australopithecus boisei from Area 104, Koobi Fora, Lake Turkana, is described. The specimen, KNM‐ER 23000, comes from sediments dated to about 1.9 Ma. It consists of the frontal, both parietals, both temporals, most of the occipital as well as two small pieces of sphenoid, and a mandibular tooth root. The specimen is presumed to be an adult male, based on its size and the great development of features associated with the …
Place as a Practical Concern of Mobile Workers
In this paper we examine the spatial practices of mobile workers-how mobile workers manage their use of technology and place. Data from interviews with highly mobile workers and 'hot-deskers' are used to explore the reciprocal relationship between practice and place: how places change work, but also how work changes places. Mobile workers often need to configure their activities to take account of the different places in which they find themselve…
Rotating maps and readers: Praxiological aspects of alignment and orientation
A longstanding topic in our notions of what geographic knowledge could be is the mental map, or, in its most recent form, mental spatial representations. In this paper we draw upon ethnomethodological critiques of cognition, and mind more generally, to re‐specify navigation, orientation and alignment in terms of human practices of navigating, orienting and aligning in particular settings. Our ambition in the paper is less to dismantle notions of …
Mediated Pedestrian Mobility: Walking and the Map App
While walking has always been mediated, the arrival of smartphones with multiple apps has changed how we walk and how we use apps. In this study, we investigate the relationships of pedestrian-in-the-street and app-user-on-screen actions. We display and describe a series of intersubjective practices constituted by, and with, walking while using a mobile device. The video data used are from a larger study of pedestrians using smartphones in urban …
South Turkwel: A new Pliocene hominid site in Kenya
Experts at Play: Understanding Skilled Expertise
Developing from David Sudnow's accounts of expertise, this article examines the gameplay of Counter-Strike, a popular online game. Although Counter-Strike at first may seem an unsophisticated pursuit, players display remarkable dexterity developed through many hours of play. Through participating in the game and analyzing videos of gameplay, we examine Counter-Strike as an example of expert technology use. As players move beyond the mere physical…
Notes on the practices and appearances of e-scooter users in public space
Working the problems of Tourism
The Order of Service: The Practical Management of Customer Interaction
This paper discusses a pervasive yet neglected form of social interaction, that between service staff and customers. Observational and video data from two different shop settings are used to explore three aspects of service interactions. First, queues are discussed, a mundane yet massively prevalent device for managing when and how customers are served. Queues depend on customers ability to 'work the queue', to be able to see who is queuing and t…
The linguistic fault: The case of Foucault's archaeology
It is argued that the concept of discursive formation presented by Foucault provides the means whereby conventional treatments of ‘discourse’ can be criticized. These would include historical, linguistic and epistemological forms of investigation. But it is also argued that Foucault does not sufficiently displace linguistic categories. As a result his account of the theoretical problems of ‘conditions of existence’ of discourses cannot be sustain…
The reservations of the editor: The routine work of showing and knowing the film in the edit suite
The editing suite is one of the hidden spaces of film – a place where complex forms of embodied collaboration around screens take place. In this paper we present video-recorded data of an editor and director assembling a short documentary. From it we begin to describe editing work in terms of being aware of what media there are, assessing those materials and making them visible. We move on to consider the joint task of assessing clips once they a…
The effects of a 4-year program promoting bicycle helmet use among children in Quebec
OBJECTIVES. This study assessed the effectiveness of a 4-year program of bicycle helmet promotion that targeted elementary school children in one region of Quebec. The program revolved primarily around persuasive communication and community organization, combining standard educational activities and activities to facilitate helmet acquisition and use. METHODS. Helmet use was compared between more than 8000 young cyclists in municipalities exposed…
Word of mouth: Products, Conversations and Consumption
While there is a rich collection of studies of consumption and identity, the role of buying practices in ordinary conversations has been largely neglected. Minor items and major purchases regularly play a key role in furnishing our talk with topics, news, jokes and formulations of what kind of people we are. This paper unpacks the idea of post-purchase conversations contained within the common phrase “word of mouth.” What happens when products ar…
What it means to change lanes: Actions, emotions and wayfinding in the family car
In this paper we investigate how the sequential organization and settlement of disagreements comes to shape, and be shaped by, navigation. Using extracts of in-car interaction, we examine the gestalt of projectable aspects of road travel, car movements, and driver-navigator talk. Navigation when accomplished without maps relies on making sense of streets, landmarks, and signs, activities that are displayed through passengers and drivers giving di…
Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the visible
Journal Article Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the visible Get access Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the visible. London, Sydney and Wellington: Pandora Press, 1990, 330 pp. Beverley Brown Beverley Brown Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 32, Issue 1, Spring 1991, Pages 114–119, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/32.1.114 Published: 01 Mar…
Making Time: Pausing to Coordinate Video Instructions and Practical Tasks
Using video recordings as data to study how dyads follow instructional videos to achieve practical tasks, this article focuses on how participants coordinate the temporality of the video with that of their task by pausing the video. We examine three types of pausing, each displaying participants' online understanding of the instructions and different articulations between demonstrations and practical task: pausing to raise a correspondence proble…
A Bip, a Beeeep, and a Beep Beep: How Horns Are Sounded in Chennai Traffic
Although the vehicle horn is a minimal audible unit for communication, we will show that its uses are impressively varied. Drawing upon a corpus of video recordings from dashcams, we show how drivers use the horn for creating awareness; how they target particular vehicles; and how they use it for warnings, for complaints, and in instructing the seeing of an aspect of an ambiguous traffic object. Drivers’ use of the horn involves, first, their sou…
A Curious Arrangement
Journal Article A Curious Arrangement Get access Beverley Brown Beverley Brown Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 23, Issue 5, December 1982, Pages 2–25, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/23.5.2 Published: 01 December 1982
The linguistic fault: The case of Foucault's archaeology
It is argued that the concept of discursive formation presented by Foucault provides the means whereby conventional treatments of ‘discourse’ can be criticized. These would include historical, linguistic and epistemological forms of investigation. But it is also argued that Foucault does not sufficiently displace linguistic categories. As a result his account of the theoretical problems of ‘conditions of existence’ of discourses cannot be sustain…
A Curious Arrangement
Journal Article A Curious Arrangement Get access Beverley Brown Beverley Brown Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 23, Issue 5, December 1982, Pages 2–25, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/23.5.2 Published: 01 December 1982
Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the visible
Journal Article Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the visible Get access Linda Williams, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the visible. London, Sydney and Wellington: Pandora Press, 1990, 330 pp. Beverley Brown Beverley Brown Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 32, Issue 1, Spring 1991, Pages 114–119, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/32.1.114 Published: 01 Mar…
New Australopithecus boisei calvaria from East Lake Turkana, Kenya
The calvaria of an adult Australopithecus boisei from Area 104, Koobi Fora, Lake Turkana, is described. The specimen, KNM‐ER 23000, comes from sediments dated to about 1.9 Ma. It consists of the frontal, both parietals, both temporals, most of the occipital as well as two small pieces of sphenoid, and a mandibular tooth root. The specimen is presumed to be an adult male, based on its size and the great development of features associated with the …
Reliability of self-reported HIV risk behaviors of drug users.
In AIDS research, relatively little attention has been paid to reliability of self-report of drug users. The authors examined the test-retest reliability of the Risk Behavior Assessment (NIDA, 1991) questionnaire. This structured-interview questionnaire was administered twice to 196 drug users in 5 cities over a 48-hr period. Findings indicated that respondents consistently self-report drug use, injection practices, and sexual behaviors; discrepa…
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had a significant impact on the creation, development, and direction of research in dental anthropology in the U.S. and internationally. We have selected a small, but international group of dental anthropologists whose research methods and interests reflect, and have been impacted by Dahlberg's influence. The unifying theme of this symposium, dental morphology and evolution, is broadly conceived to include papers on dental genetics, development, …
The effects of a 4-year program promoting bicycle helmet use among children in Quebec
OBJECTIVES. This study assessed the effectiveness of a 4-year program of bicycle helmet promotion that targeted elementary school children in one region of Quebec. The program revolved primarily around persuasive communication and community organization, combining standard educational activities and activities to facilitate helmet acquisition and use. METHODS. Helmet use was compared between more than 8000 young cyclists in municipalities exposed…
South Turkwel: A new Pliocene hominid site in Kenya
Of maps and guidebooks: Designing Geographical Technologies
The physical environment plays a large role in the design and use of technology. So called "context-aware" systems use ultrasound, GPS or cell-tracking, to work out their position and infer something of their context [9]. These systems offer the possibility of technology which responds better to the environments it is in [4], and also technologies which interact with the physical world in new ways [5]. Through these developments technology is inc…
Exploring users' experiences of the Web
While browsing the Web is a widespread everyday activity there is a shortage of detailed understanding of how users organise their Web usage. In this paper we present results from a qualitative in-depth interview study of how users browse the Web and combine browsing with their other activities. The data are used to explore three particular problems which users have with browsing the Web. Firstly, users have problems managing their favourites, an…
Unpacking a Timesheet: Formalisation and Representation
Influence of Yard Work and Weight Training on Bone Mineral Density Among Older U. S. Women
The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of type of physical activity on bone mineral density among older U.S. women. Findings from the present study indicate that jogging, swimming and calisthenics were weak predictors for high bone density values. Bicycling, aerobics, walking and dancing were moderate predictors for positive bone density. Yard work and weight training were strong and independent predictors for positive bone dens…
A profile of an HIV- and child-specific programme in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, 4.3 million children under 15 years of age have been infected with HIV worldwide; in the year 2000 alone, the World Health Organization estimates that 600,000 children became HIV-infected. Ancillary services offer the potential to improve access to and retention in primary care through removal of barriers to care. Globally, ancillary services may actually represent a significant proportion of all care del…
Peer Advocate Services Increase the Odds That Women with HIV Will Use Condoms with Main Partners
Among HIV-positive women participating in an HIV prevention program the odds of improving consistency of condom use with a main partner are more than twice as high for those who have access to peer advocates as for those who do not. However the same intervention has little effect on condom use among women at risk of HIV. These findings were based on an evaluation on study involving 1611 women in Baltimore and Philadelphia. In the 6-month interven…
Tourism and mobile technology
Place as a Practical Concern of Mobile Workers
In this paper we examine the spatial practices of mobile workers-how mobile workers manage their use of technology and place. Data from interviews with highly mobile workers and 'hot-deskers' are used to explore the reciprocal relationship between practice and place: how places change work, but also how work changes places. Mobile workers often need to configure their activities to take account of the different places in which they find themselve…
Building a Context Sensitive Telephone: Some Hopes and Pitfalls for Context Sensitive Computing
The Order of Service: The Practical Management of Customer Interaction
This paper discusses a pervasive yet neglected form of social interaction, that between service staff and customers. Observational and video data from two different shop settings are used to explore three aspects of service interactions. First, queues are discussed, a mundane yet massively prevalent device for managing when and how customers are served. Queues depend on customers ability to 'work the queue', to be able to see who is queuing and t…
Maps and Journeys: An Ethno-methodological Investigation
The notion of the “cognitive map” has long been central to studies of maps, wayfinding, and navigation. In this article we provide an alternative approach to studying map use that re-situates these activities as shared social and cultural practices. The article draws on ethno-methodology and conversation analysis to study video of two examples of naturally organized map reading. We explore how journeying with maps is part of the in situ organizat…
Leisure and CSCW: Introduction to Special Edition
Working the problems of Tourism
Rotating maps and readers: Praxiological aspects of alignment and orientation
A longstanding topic in our notions of what geographic knowledge could be is the mental map, or, in its most recent form, mental spatial representations. In this paper we draw upon ethnomethodological critiques of cognition, and mind more generally, to re‐specify navigation, orientation and alignment in terms of human practices of navigating, orienting and aligning in particular settings. Our ambition in the paper is less to dismantle notions of …
Driving and ‘Passengering: Notes on the Ordinary Organization of Car Travel
We spend ever‐increasing periods of our lives travelling in cars, yet quite what it is we do while travelling, aside from driving the vehicle itself, is largely overlooked. Drawing on analyses of video records of a series of quite ordinary episodes of car travel, in this paper we begin to document what happens during car journeys. The material concentrates on situations where people are travelling together in order to examine how social units suc…
Experts at Play: Understanding Skilled Expertise
Developing from David Sudnow's accounts of expertise, this article examines the gameplay of Counter-Strike, a popular online game. Although Counter-Strike at first may seem an unsophisticated pursuit, players display remarkable dexterity developed through many hours of play. Through participating in the game and analyzing videos of gameplay, we examine Counter-Strike as an example of expert technology use. As players move beyond the mere physical…
The reservations of the editor: The routine work of showing and knowing the film in the edit suite
The editing suite is one of the hidden spaces of film – a place where complex forms of embodied collaboration around screens take place. In this paper we present video-recorded data of an editor and director assembling a short documentary. From it we begin to describe editing work in terms of being aware of what media there are, assessing those materials and making them visible. We move on to consider the joint task of assessing clips once they a…
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