KohonenAho2023
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | KohonenAho2023 |
| Author(s) | Laura Kohonen-Aho, Pentti Haddington |
| Title | From distributed ecologies to distributed bodies in interaction: capturing and analysing “dual embodiment” in virtual environments |
| Editor(s) | Pentti Haddington, Tiina Eilittä, Antti Kamunen, Laura Kohonen-Aho, Tuire Oittinen, Iira Rautiainen, Anna Vatanen |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2023 |
| Language | English |
| City | London |
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| Pages | 111–131 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003424888-8 |
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| Book title | Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis in Motion: Emerging Methods and New Technologies |
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Abstract
In virtual environments (VEs) dispersed participants talk and interact through virtual avatars. An avatar's body provides a sense of presence in the virtual space and co-presence with others. Avatars can move in the virtual space and use gestures for interacting with others. This chapter analyses video recordings of interactions in VEs. The analysis shows how the participants’ fragmented access to their own or a co-participant's avatar or physical body features in the coordination of joint embodied action. We also show how the participants’ actions reveal their orientation to two bodies in VE interaction: the physical and the virtual. We argue that because of dual embodiment in VEs, EMCA methodology benefits from the collection of parallel video recordings: the capturing of both the private physical actions by which a participant controls an avatar and the participants’ public actions in the VE. We argue that gaining a “member's perspective” inside a VE involves the analysis of the participants’ actions beyond the participants’ joint space in the VE and how distributed bodies feature in the accomplishment of accountable action in VEs.
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