We We We All The Way Home
The "We" effect in transitional spaces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5948349 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ken Anderson (Intel (United Kingdom)), Rogério De Paula (Intel (United States)) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 2006 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-75 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings (CONFERENCE) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-890X • E-ISSN: 1559-8918 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1559-8918.2006.tb00036.x |
| OpenAlex | W2074088783 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
The majority of ethnographic studies for businesses have focused on places: home, work, “third places,” and even “non-places”. Daily life, however, is composed of transitional moments - matter of “in-betweeness.” Transitional spaces and movements have increasingly been sites for “filling the gap” informational and “cocooning” products. We explored the in-between transitional moments on buses and commuter boats in Salvador, Bahia. We contend that the experience in this time-space creates a “we-tween” or just a “we-we,” which engages the people and the environment in a moment of group solidarity and interactivity. We contrast this study of in-between to those we conducted in “Western” countries. The “we” affect suggests that corporate efforts in design and development have been disproportionally focused on Euro-North American values, which has direct implications for corporate innovation. We highlight the value of a multi-voiced approach in the collaboration between our US research lab and our product lab in Brazil, as one kind of solution to the problems of appropriate innovation
Affect (linguistics · Ethnography · Interactivity · Political science · Product (mathematics · Sociology · Solidarity · Transition (genetics · Unit (ring theory · Value (mathematics · Work (physics · World Wide Web · Communication · Computer Science · Design Education and Practice · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2009 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |