My study examines the lived experience in the area of human-computer interaction (HCI), 3D virtual environments and learning in professional development settings. I've seen various (psychological) phenomenological approaches employed e.g. in nursing and psychology, but what about in HCI and learning? There's naturally Ihde, and I have seen e.g. Clark Moustakas' (1994) descriptive approach used for e.g. studying computer use for informal learning Educational Computer Use in Leisure Contexts (Cilesiz 2008). Anything else that stands out in descriptive/interpretive phenomenology? Just to focus the question a bit more: I'm especially interested of phenomenology as a research approach, and not just as an underlying philosophy that allows to view HCI and learning through certain perspectives or concepts (e.g. Heidegger's present-at-hand). Thanks!
Are you familiar with the article by Marloes Moraal et al. 'A virtual rehabilitation program after amputation: a phenomenological exploration'? It might be interesting for you. You might also be interested in Yoni Van Den Eede's work on transparency and opacity in human-technology relations ('In Between Us: on the transperency and opacity of technological mediation). As for methodology: I am using Interpretativ Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as a method for approaching the relationship between users and prosthetic devices, but nothing comes to mind regarding such analyses as applied to HCI.. Hope this is helpful!
Thanks so much Gili for the reply! I haven't read those, so thanks.
Interesting that you mentioned IPA, because I was just reading the book the other day, but I haven't seen too many studies in my area "done" with it. To make things short: I started off with descriptive phenomenology in mind (following Moustakas' approach), but have come to a point where I feel interpreting the data, perhaps a bit similarly what IPA suggests, would make the study richer – there are also other worldview reasons, e.g. I believe we always perform an interpretation. Now I feel I need to hold back all the experience I already have from the field as an interaction designer and learning designer – but basically as always in research I guess, still need to make that visible in a discussion phase/chapter anyway.
Would be great to read your research at some stage, as some things I have seen with HCI could very well resonate with the experience of prosthetic devices.
Probably you could be interested to the answers of the post below (see link 1) where there are some links to research studies on Virtual Reality applied to e-learning. Probably some of them could include a phenomenological approach.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Beside_games_do_you_think_virtual_reality_is_useful_for_educational_learning
Hey Francesco. Thanks for reminding me of that. I just realised I have a reply on that particular strand of messages. :)
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