Charles Goodwin's Vist to Japan in December 1995

In December 1995 Professor Charles Goodwin from University of South Carolina (currently at UCLA) visited Japan and provided workshops and lectures. Topics of his presentatins included 'aphasia', 'acheological excurvation', 'Operations rooms at an airport', 'chemistry experiment', 'a scientific vessel', 'children's play' and so on.

Dr. Goodwin demonstrated elegantly and successfully how seeing is interactively displayed and achieved, how classification is jointly achieved within a distinct activity, how participation frameworks are organized and interlocked in interaction, and so on.

One of the results of our academic exchange is a special issue of Mind, Culture and Activity (Summer 2000):

• Special Issue Vision and Inscription in Practice
• Guest Editors Charles Goodwin (UCLA) and Naoki Ueno (The National Institute for Educational Research, Tokyo)
• Introduction Charles Goodwin, Vision and Inscription in Practice
• Articles
  • Lucy Suchman
    Embodied Practices of Engineering Work
  • Charles Goodwin
    Practices of Color Classification
  • Yasuko Kawatoko
    Organizing Multiple Vision
  • Naoki Ueno
    Ecologies of Inscription: Technologies of Making the Social Organization of Work and the Mass Production of Machine Parts Visible in Cllaborative Activity
  • Christian Heath and Jon Hindmarsh
    Configuring Action in Objects: From Mtual Space to Media Space
  • Aug Nishizaka
    Seeing What One Sees: Perception, Emotion, and Activity
  • Michael Lynch and Kathleen Jordan
    Patents, Promotions, and Protocls: Mapping and Claiming Scientific Territory
  • Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star
    Invisible Mediators of Action: Classification and the Ubiquity of Standards