The topic of this study is to analyse the interactive behaviours in the process of teaching the elderly to use technologies, like using smartphones, tablets and computers. The setting of this fieldwork was conducted in the office of Nottingham Chinese Welfare Association (NCWA), where I volunteer with another undergraduate, conducting IT class for the elderly members there every week. The fieldwork is to study the interactional methods of the teachers (the volunteers) use for teaching and the students (the elderly) use for learning in this teaching procedure, which lasts for one hour approximately.

 

 

The analytic orientation of this ethnographic study is to unpack the machinery of the interaction of the members when they conducting their ordinary activities. In other words, there are the learning and teaching activities included in this context. The analytic orientation can be divided into three levels while applying in the fieldwork. First of all, talk and bodily conduct are the primary factors consisting of social activities, which is the most important part in my study, because the modality of this interactional work is done through talk and operation in the digital devices. Secondly, the sense and significance of social activities should be also considered since they make the context reasonable and rational. Thirdly, the practices, reasoning and steps which participants use to produce social actions are needed to analyse.

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Data Collection: Video Recording, Fieldnotes.

Location: the office of Nottingham Chinese Welfare Association (NCWA).

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民族志实地考察：老人学习智能手机使用案例

项目职务：记录员，分析员

所在公司：在校项目

项目描述：该项目主要目的是通过民族志观察法实地考察老人学习电脑和智能手机使用案例，通过记录和后期分析来学习这一行为。 
项目地点：诺丁汉华人福利中心，诺丁汉，英国 

项目职责：1. 用相机记录福利中心内一个志愿者教以为老人家使用笔记本电脑和智能手机的过程，同时并在旁边观察和手动记录过程。 2. 分析与整理得到的视频文件和笔记，制作活动时间图。 3. 把视频中对话译成文字。 4. 分析每次互动之间的机制。 5. 把分析结果组织到报告中