The Significance of the Hermeneutics of Play for Gamification

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Kosti Joensuu ◽  
Sanna Ryynänen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Theoretical Consideration ◽  
Phenomenological Hermeneutics ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Academic Discussion ◽  
Virtual Game

Games and play are increasingly significant in everyday life. Thus, a philosophical and theoretical consideration of these concepts is needed. This article uses phenomenological hermeneutics to discuss games, play, and gamification; it also addresses the development of gamifying planes within gamification studies. It hypothesizes that the academic discussion of gamification becomes more valid, ontologically, by focusing on the phenomenon and lived experience of play and playing from a phenomenological perspective. It presents an upcoming practical intervention, an empirical research design of case study of playing a virtual game, to demonstrate how the essence of play and the integrated spheres of virtual and real worlds could be approached. Thus, it could provide valuable information that is needed in the fast-developing domain of interventions in gamification and the game-business. On the basis of this study's theoretical findings, a broader ontological notion is suggested to overcome the subjectifying notion of player and the objectifying notion of games and play.

Economic Institutions From a Phenomenological Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 11-41
Author(s):  
Daniela López ◽  
Valeria Laborda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
The City ◽  
Economic Institution

The paper aims to analyse the potentiality of Schutzian phenomenological approach on institutions. We will maintain that this point of view has to take into account at least three aspects of institutions. Firstly, institutions should be considered as objective and sedimented configurations of meaning. Secondly, the historicity and the genesis of the institutional objectified meaning should be explored. Thirdly, life in modern societies shows how reference to the generating activities has been lost in our institutions and how that process has led to the disaffection of the citizens towards them. Motivated by understanding the process through which certain actors question their relative-natural concept of economic life and institute alternative types of economic actions, the article explores a case study of an economic institution in the City of Buenos Aires belonging to the so-called “Other” economy. Following the model of the well-informed citizen, the manuscript describes a type of “economic citizen” who transforms the imposed economic relevances experienced in everyday life into the centre of interest. The emergence of that interest is analysed by tracing back this particular economic institution to the process of sedimentation and of genesis of meaning. It is demonstrated that the process of institutionalization is shaped in contrast to dominant anonymous economic institutions.

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.

The lived experience of Huntington’s disease: A phenomenological perspective on genes, the body and the lived experience of a genetic disease

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niclas Hagen
Keyword(s):  
Huntington's Disease ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Huntington’S Disease ◽  
Genetic Disease ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Disease Experience ◽  
Empirical Material

The purpose of this article is to explore the intersections between genes, the body and the lived experience of a genetic disease. This article is based on empirical material from a study on how individuals affected by Huntington’s disease experience their everyday life. This study identified two themes that represent and capture the experience of the affected individuals. The themes are (1) noticing symptoms in everyday life and (2) neither health nor disease. The analysis of the empirical material was performed by employing a theoretical framework based on phenomenology. The findings of this study showed that the lived experiences among individuals affected by Huntington’s disease were both fluid and dynamic in their nature. Furthermore, the analysis of the empirical material suggests that this fluid and dynamic character can be linked to a dimension that revolves around the intersections between genetics and the body. Following phenomenologist Drew Leder’s outline of the divergence between the invisible and the visible features of the body, the analysis of the empirical material suggests that the mutated gene that causes Huntington’s disease can be seen as a phenomenological nullpoint. It is important that the healthcare system acknowledges and addresses the lived experiences that are discussed in this article, particularly, as the use of genetics and genetic testing becomes more widespread usage within medicine.

Demilitarization: Unraveling the Structures of Violence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Bickford
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
East Germany ◽  
The Social ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Interdisciplinary Inquiry ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Cultural Constructions

This chapter presents a case study regarding East Germany after reunification, and frames it in terms of a larger and interdisciplinary inquiry into what demilitarization is all about. Narrow conceptions of demilitarization that are centered solely on the destruction of weapons fetishize weapons, and these narrow views obscure analysis of the social relations and cultural constructions upon which militarization programs are dependent. Demilitarization implies a reversal of an implicit process or program—an unraveling—of ways of thinking and sensing that made a military solution thinkable and desirable. The chapter also looks at the salient foci of demilitarization at the “micro” level of everyday life and lived experience, and how states attempt to make certain kinds of citizens.

scholarly journals Using the Mass Observation Project: A Case Study in the Practice of Reusing Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-40
Author(s):  
Fiona Courage
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Subjective Data ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Data Subject

Mass Observation was founded in 1937 to collect subjective, qualitative data on everyday life in Britain, and has continued to record the ordinary and the everyday ever since. Mass Observation’s purpose has always been to make the data it collects available to a range of disciplines to apply their own methodological approaches upon, resulting in data that can be reused within different projects and disciplines. This paper will use Mass Observation as a case study to illustrate how a sociological shift in attitude towards subjective data has played out in the use of a dataset traditionally viewed as a historical archive.  I will review how the data itself is used to define and design methods of analysis, examining the epistemological implications of this approach to research design and the new dimension to the researcher-data subject relationship that is introduced. I will conclude by suggesting that research using Mass Observation exemplifies the methodological opportunities and insights that can be gained by adopting a broader, multi-disciplinary research approach to reusing data.

scholarly journals The Carceral City: Confinement and Order in Hong Kong’s Forbidden Enclave

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fraser ◽  
Anna Schliehe
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Civil Unrest ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Carceral Geography

Abstract Once feted, Hong Kong has recently become a centre of civil unrest. In this paper, we situate these emergent politics through a case study of corruption and everyday life in Kowloon Walled City, a mainland Chinese enclave in British Hong Kong, which developed notoriety as a freestanding grey economy. Drawing from oral testimonies of police officers, triad members and local residents, we excavate the lived experience of confinement within this contested space. These accounts reconstruct the Walled City as a ‘quasi-carceral’ site of enclosure, a zone of colonial exceptionalism and a hybrid cultural space. Through this case study, we historicize current debates in carceral geography, humanize recent interventions in urban scholarship and analyse the shifting politics at the frontier of Chinese expansionism.

Qualitative Case Study Research Design

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Tetnowski
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Real World ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Study Research

Qualitative case study research can be a valuable tool for answering complex, real-world questions. This method is often misunderstood or neglected due to a lack of understanding by researchers and reviewers. This tutorial defines the characteristics of qualitative case study research and its application to a broader understanding of stuttering that cannot be defined through other methodologies. This article will describe ways that data can be collected and analyzed.

FOSTERING STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES IN ENGLISH WRITING WITH MICROBLOGGING IN TWITTER

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Pham Thi Thu Hien
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology

Twitter and Microblogging are two separate entities but completes each other. Both of them can be used as language learning tools and their potential has been proved by several scholars. This study tries to examine students’ experiences in integrating microblogging with twitter. It is also study about the beneficial roles of microblogging with Twitter in language learning, its relation to writing, and its appropriateness in language learning. This study employs a qualitative research methodology, and case study as its research design. Semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were employed in this study to find out about participants' views about microblogging and Twitter. From this study, it can be concluded that the participants of the study underwent various experiences during the implementation of microblogging with Twitter. They also felt that microblogging with Twitter at some point advantages them to systematically arrange their ideas, and allows them to choose appropriate diction of their ideas. They also stated that Twitter can be an appropriate means in language learning, especially in English writing<em>.</em>

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