Interaction Analysis

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Interaction Analysis

• Ingeborg Krange
• Andreas Lund

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Roots

• Ethnography
• Sociolinguistics
• Conversation Analysis
• Kinesics (movement)
• SUM Knowledge building through social interaction

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Methodology

• Capture speech, gesture, use of artefacts
  (social and material ecologies)
• Individual/Collective/Relations
• Detailed trajectories
• in time/space dimensions
• Multilevel analysis (macro/meso/micro)
  (zooming)
• Video Analysis (many configurations!)
• Transcripts (detail/speech movement
  distributed activities)

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Example/Questions(video cut)
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Problems

• The black box of peer group learning
  (Kumpulainen, K., Mutanen, M., 1999).
• Unit of analysis? Episodes?
• The phenomenon? Meaning making, new type of
  activity, negotiations between agents
• How can we draw conclusions from qualitative data
  (corpus/selections)?