The participants in an ultrasound examination (a healthcare provider and a pregnant woman) orient to, as the dominant involvement at hand, what is recognizable as one of the official tasks of ultrasound examinations. However, during an ultrasound examination, the healthcare provider also performs various activities other than examining the pregnant woman's interior structure, but still relevant to the health care of the pregnant woman, such as giving advice. The question to be addressed in this presentation is how participants organize these activities as "subordinate" in the performance of an ultrasound examination.
Gibson's concept of "affordance"(1986) focuses on information that is available in the environment to propose an interactionist view of perception and action (Greeno 1994). In aikido practice, members mutually perceive the partner's body and rely on that perception to project and accomplish their further action. The general purpose of this data session (of video-recorded extracts of aikido practice) is to examine the possibility of observing the interactional (sequential) production of "affordances".
If anybody is interested in bringing their own data, analyses, observations, arguments, or whatever, to a next meeting to discuss together, please contact Aug Nishizaka at augnish(a)soc.meijigakuin.ac.jp.