New research project: Video-mediated interaction, funded by the Velux Foundation
Professor Mie Femø Nielsen, Centre for Interaction Research and Communication Design (CIRCD), has obtained funding for a project Videomediated interaction that explores the professional use of video-mediated interaction and its unexplored impact on humanity and society. Furthermore, it investigates the video-mediation of the interactional practices and how it affects the trajectory of the mediated talk itself.
These practices will be examined in two institutional settings, telemedicine and offshore collaboration where video mediation is increasing and where interaction involves professional purposes, practices and routines that have been investigated in detail in face-to-face interaction.
The aim is to:
- study what challenges they face when doing so,
- study how participants in video-mediated talk accomplish institutional tasks,
- how they compensate for the shortcomings of the video mediation, and
- how they accomplish relating to and trusting each other.
The project represents multidisciplinary research using method triangulation. Data are video recordings of authentic video interaction in professional-professional as well as professional-lay settings.