Cultural Probes as a Carefully Curated Research Design Approach to Elicit Older Adult Lived Experience

2022 ◽  
pp. 182-207
Author(s):  
Jenna Mikus ◽  
Deanna Grant-Smith ◽  
Janice Rieger
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Health And Well Being

There is growing recognition that methods that elicit the perspectives of vulnerable and marginalized people are essential in understanding the needs and aspirations of this group and therefore necessary when developing impactful policies, services, and environments that support them. Creative elicitation methods, which privilege participant voice, can be useful for conducting research with such populations. This chapter explores how research informed by care ethics, appreciative inquiry, and communicative methodology can support participant self-determination through the achievement of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. By advancing deliberate, iterative, and care-full research design that emphasizes belonging, dignity, and justice, cultural probes provide practical potential and ethical utility as a research method. The effectiveness of this care-full cultural probe approach is demonstrated and examined through a case study of a co-design research project concerned with designing for health and well-being at home with and for older adults.

scholarly journals Translating performative mediated art into virtual reality: A case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Matthew Sansom ◽  
Zi Siang See
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Audio Video ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Health And Well Being

Park benches are distinctive public spaces that invite a temporary pause for thought and time out from everyday activities and worldly preoccupations. Park Bench Sojourn is a multimodal arts project that explores the uniqueness and universality of these spaces and the kinds of experiences they foster. It asks what it means to be human; surrounded, as we are, by computer technologies and digital media, living lives that are perpetually ‘connected’ and dispersed through the cloud. It reflects on how our technologically determined lives and lifestyles conspire against us to find opportunities to stop, reflect and be witnesses to lived experience. It is a conceptually playful creative work that shares concerns for health and well-being arising from the contemporary mindfulness movement and the traditional practices and worldviews upon which mindfulness draws. The project is based around a range of experiential sojourns, which require participants to find a bench to sit on and then take a sojourn, or a number of sojourns from the project’s website, which may include audio, video, spoken word, or just listening. Other iterations of the project have included a multimedia gallery installation juxtaposing content from a variety of sojourns. Regardless of the format, context or specific content, the project explores ways in which we ‘perform’ ourselves and mediate experience via digital technologies. In this article, we describe the process of translating this mediated and performative artwork into a VR prototype and directions for future work.

scholarly journals A Socio-Spatial Approach to Enable Inclusive Well-Being in Cities: A Case Study of Birmingham, UK

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Lakshmi P. Rajendran ◽  
Christopher T. Boyko ◽  
Claire J. Coulton ◽  
James D. Hale ◽  
Rachel F. D. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Spatial Approach ◽  
Spatial Parameters ◽  
Study Support ◽  
Health And Well Being

This article examines density and deprivation, the two important parameters that define health and well-being in cities. Discussions are drawn from a case study conducted in Birmingham in four neighborhoods characterized by their different population density and deprivation levels. Data were collected through questionnaires developed from a set of subjective well-being measures and built environment audits, based on the Irvine Minnesota Inventory that evaluates the quality of streets and walkability in neighborhoods. The inferences from the study support the need for linking health, planning, policy and design research and decision-making to the socio-spatial practices of people, impacting well-being at the everyday level. The findings provide a holistic approach health and well-being research and suggests a conceptual framework for inclusive well-being in cities, which signifies the role of social and spatial parameters in determining peoples’ health and well-being. The study also highlights the lack of interdisciplinary research in understanding the association between well-being and social and behavioral practices in diverse communities.

Measuring the Impact of a Full Service Grocery Store in a Food Desert

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Kellie Schneider ◽  
Diana Cuy Castellanos ◽  
Felix Fernando ◽  
Jeanne A. Holcomb
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Food Deserts ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health And Well Being

Food deserts, areas in which it is difficult to obtain affordable, nutritious food, are especially problematic in low-income neighbourhoods. One model for addressing food hardship and unemployment issues within low-income food deserts is a cooperative grocery store. Through the cooperative model, the grocery store can serve as a cornerstone to address socio-economic marginalisation of low-income neighbourhoods and improve the health and well-being of its residents. It is important for communities and policymakers to be able to assess the effectiveness of these types of endeavours beyond traditional economic factors such as profitability. This article uses a systems engineering approach to develop a framework for measuring the holistic impact of a cooperative grocery store on community health and well-being. This framework encompasses values that characterise the relationship between food retail, economic viability and social equality. We develop a dashboard to display the key metrics for measuring the economic, social and environmental indicators that reflect a grocery store’s social impact. We demonstrate the usefulness of the framework through a case study of a full-service cooperative grocery store that is planned within the city of Dayton, OH.

scholarly journals Evaluasi Manajemen Central Sterille Suply Departement (CSSD) dalam Meminimalisir Terjadinya Healthcare Associated Infectiomn (HAIs) di RSDU Dr. Darsono Pacitan

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Ahmad Ahid Mudayana ◽  
Niska Yustiana
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Service Unit ◽  
Study Techniques ◽  
Healthcare Associated ◽  
Document Review ◽  
And Storage

Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD) or Sterilization Center Installation is a strategic service unit in preventing infection. And has the main function of preparing clean and sterile tools for the purposes of patient care at the hospital. The research method used descriptive qualitative and research design used case study. Techniques of collecting data using interviews, checklist and document review. The results show that 1) CSSD planning is well planned, 2) CSSD organizing has not been fully structured, 3) Implementation consists of receiving tools, packaging, labeling, sterilization, distribution, and storage, 4) supervision done every 6 months.

scholarly journals Case Study on Anthropogenic Air Pollution in Nagpur City

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VI) ◽  
pp. 2279-2282
Author(s):  
Mukul Dayaramani
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Harmful Effect ◽  
Central India ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Air Pollutant ◽  
Corporate Community ◽  
Health And Well Being

Air pollution is a very serious problem worldwide. Anthropogenic air pollution is mostly related to the combustion of various types of fuels. Air pollutant levels remain too high and air quality problems are still not solved. The presence of pollutants in the air has a harmful effect on the human health and the environment. Good air quality is a prerequisite for our good health and well-being. Nagpur city is located in Maharashtra state of central India. Business hub and increased industrialization in study area is affecting the environment adversely. n. Changing life style of corporate community and their effects on other population enhancing the contamination of environment

scholarly journals Case Studies in the Culture of Professional Football Players and Mental Welfare and Wellbeing

2020 ◽  
pp. 325-329
Author(s):  
Michael Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Well Being

AbstractThis chapter draws on the author’s personal experience together with the findings from his qualitative research, to explore the cultural values driving problems of mental health and well-being among professional footballers. The study makes explicit the way in which players are expected to hide their experiences of being objectified—of being subject to gendered, racialised and other forms of dehumanisation—and denied a legitimate lived experience, an authentic heard voice. The chapter illustrates the importance in values-based practice of knowledge of values gained as in this instance by way of qualitative methods from the social sciences being used to fill out knowledge derived from individual personal experience.

Tourists in the garden; human health and happiness and the semiotics of garden visiting.

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-97
Author(s):  
Richard W. Benfield
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Five Senses ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract In this chapter the motivations of garden visiting are explored at a deeper level, into the realm of psychology and psychological drivers to gardens. This research area is called "semiotics". It is suggested that examination of the five senses would be a major indicator of semiotics as much of what a tourist experiences or displays would be recorded through the five human senses. Moreover, the five senses lead to a realization of happiness which is what tourism seeks and indeed what the human species ultimately wishes. A case study is presented of semiotics research conducted in the Queens Botanical Garden, Flushing, New York, USA. The literature that links gardens (and gardening) to human health and well-being is also reviewed.

Employing Indigenous Methodologies to Understand Women’s Perceptions of HIV, Health, and Well-being in Quebec, Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-181
Author(s):  
Nadia O’Brien ◽  
Carrie Martin ◽  
Doris Peltier ◽  
Angela Kaida ◽  
Marissa Becker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Indigenous Methodology ◽  
Women’S Perceptions ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Health And Well Being

Guided by an Indigenous Methodology and a participatory research approach, we explored the experiences and priorities of Indigenous women living in Quebec regarding HIV prevention and care, overall health, and well-being. We drew from our research process to identify recommendations for conducting research with Indigenous women. These lessons include: (1) incorporating culturally adapted methods (e.g., sharing circles, arts, ceremony) facilitated participants’ safety and comfort; (2) conducting numerous workshops was valuable in building trust; and (3) validating findings with participants was essential to ensuring that the knowledge, experiences, and priorities of Indigenous women were respected. Our research findings regarding the care needs and priorities of women emphasize the importance of peer-led groups, culturally rooted healing strategies, accessible harm reduction, and social supports. Participatory research, led by members of the communities concerned, imbues the research with local knowledge and wisdom, which ensures the relevance of the research, the appropriateness of its conduct, and enables its overall success.

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