This article explores how two seemingly contradictory global trends—scientific rationality and religious expressiveness—intersect are negotiated in people’s lives Nordic countries. We focus on Finland Sweden, both countries with reputations of being highly secular modernized welfare states. The draws our multi-sited ethnography including interviews health practitioners, academics, students iden...

We describe ethnomethodologically informed ethnography as a methodology for information science research, illustrating it with the results of a study in a university library. We consider the issues that arise in coordinating the results of this research with the needs of information systems designers. As well as showing how ethnography can be used to inform systems design, this also carries imp...

With few exceptions, it has been assumed that the production of a generalizing anthropological theory of human cognition must necessarily entail a reduction of ethnographic complexity. No case-centred analysis has been offered to show that a cognitive approach to cultural complexity is possible. In this article, I want to show that a different cognitive perspective can improve our understanding...

This research, through an ethnographic approach, has the aim to find digital game design elements, that could contribute to engage users deeply even in non recreational contexts, such as the Quantified Self services.

Embedded assessment leverages the capabilities of pervasive computing to advance early detection of health conditions. In this approach, technologies embedded in the home setting are used to establish personalized baselines against which later indices of health status can be compared. Our ethnographic and concept feedback studies suggest that adoption of such health technologies among end users...