A cost of relevance preferences during post-provotype deployment interviews

This work examines the interaction between a researcher-interviewer and a homeowner at the end of a short provotype deployment at the family home. Particular attention is paid to a period in the interview when the interviewee’s contributions temporarily diverge from the interviewer’s plan. An interpretation of the incident is offered which accounts for what takes place as an urge towards relevance operating at the narrative level – i.e. making sense of a sequence of interview activities - and at the social interaction level explained in terms of local conversational topic relevance.

Paper in Proceedings of the Participatory Innovation Conference 913-15th January 2011 edited by Jacob Buur

Article in a paper edited by Jacob Buur