7. Workshop Results IWIPS 2007 (HCI 1)

Interacción Humano-Computadora 1 Maestría de Medios Interactivos Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca 7. Actually being there: the cultural experience workshop results presentation sábado 11 abril 2009 sábado 11 de abril de 2009

Actually being there: the cultural experience workshop results presentation sábado 11 de abril de 2009

Actually being there: the Mario A Moreno Rocha cultural experience Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca workshop sábado 11 de abril de 2009

The workshop was the opportunity to immerse into the richness and diverse variety of Mérida’s culture The workshop used techniques of visual ethnography to capture, through digital photography, daily life scenes and details which would give us an outsider look into the inner culture Along with its posterior analysis, we came out with an idea to better understand the culture sábado 11 de abril de 2009

A one full day workshop with a ﬁeld trip to collect data sábado 11 de abril de 2009

Workshop objectives • Explore the basis of visual ethnography and digital photography • Categorise and organise the themes and subjects that would be of interest for the workshop according to the participants • On a ﬁeld trip, participants recorded data through digital photography sábado 11 de abril de 2009

Workshop objectives • Analysis of the pictures taken by participants. They created a slideshow with meaningful images • Group discussion on the interpretation of the images in the context of the culture • Obtain conclusions, hopefully to better understand the hidden part of the culture iceberg through the experience form the workshop • Enjoy the culture! sábado 11 de abril de 2009

Culture as an iceberg (Kohls, 1995) sábado 11 de abril de 2009

Visual Ethnography Ethnography Ethnographer, me? sábado 11 de abril de 2009

Example of a visual ethnography study: bullﬁghting sábado 11 de abril de 2009

visual elements of photography 1 steady camera 2 rule of thirds 3 keep the horizon level 4 ﬁll the frame 5 lighting 6 leading lines sábado 11 de abril de 2009

ﬁeld trip sábado 11 de abril de 2009

Planning the research Ethics in visual ethnography Selecting themes sábado 11 de abril de 2009

status and gender • signage • advertising • religion • formal and informal communications • use of technology sábado 11 de abril de 2009

public presentation of ﬁndings / discussion sábado 11 de abril de 2009

North sábado 11 de abril de 2009

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South 1 sábado 11 de abril de 2009

South 2 sábado 11 de abril de 2009

Discussion • you can learn a lot about a culture from observation and from photos of things you have seen • it is important to have a focus, to have questions you want to answer, things you want to understand • analysis of photographs, and choosing what to photograph in the ﬁrst place, can be difﬁcult if you do not have local knowledge; there is a risk that you will impose knowledge of your own culture onto the things you observed in your study • talking to local people, joining in with their activities and lives for a few hours, can give an extra layer of insight sábado 11 de abril de 2009

7. Workshop Results IWIPS 2007 (HCI 1)

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