Call for Cases & Paper: Experience Studies
Formal Paper Session: Midwest Sociological Society
2023 Annual Meeting: Beyond Academe
March 23-26, 2023
Minneapolis, USA (on-site)
Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown
Timeline
- Abstracts Submissions: Oct 31, 2022
- Abstract Decisions: Nov 7, 2022
- Abstract Decisions: Nov 7, 2022
- Guideline of case formats and papers: Nov 15, 202
- FULL Paper Submissions: Jan, 2023
- Presentation in the MSS: March 23-26, 2023
- Invitation, Revisions and Decisions to publication: April, 2023
- Publication on The Journal of Experience: July, 2023
Rational
Alfred Schutz’s hermeneutic contributions establish the “meaning-context” as distinctive corpora to “experience” studies, overlooked in qualitative approaches of the “Human-computer interaction” field. Despite the use of sociology and ethnography methods in digital product investigation, they stand in sync with scalable short-term research trends linked to “agile methods.” Are we moving towards a “quantification” of qualitative craftworks automated? Is there a way out?
This Paper Session invites product/user experience (UX) researchers, and public opinion practitioner to reflect on the qualitative vs. quantitative debate and the changing of “experience” diction facing mediatization game between academia and the market: from traditional public opinion tools to modern “experience research.” Researchers and scientists with a background in social science take a step forward.
Indeed, between the 1940s and 1960s, Paul Lazarsfeld set agendas that emphasized quantification in the humanities as effects of public opinion and advertising to change attitudes and actions. In contrast, Ernest Manheim (1933) noted that public opinion is driven by linkage changes in small-group, framing types as transcendental, plural, and authoritarian spheres. These unified and fragmented the “want, react, and know” as a collectivity experience recognized.
- Do values and ethical adherence in small groups guide the solo-experience use of app features’ required actions?
- To what extent does mass media frame perceptions about aesthetics, narratives, and interactive forms, translating “experience” as synonymous with “public opinion”?
Finally, this Paper Session proposes to anchor Erving Goffman’s (1974) analyses that prefer groups’ figurative experiences instead of clustered users’ ones, reframing “users” as “actors” or “figures.”
We have a small number of slots for additional papers. We invite abstracts for 20-minute talks on topics that may include, but are not limited to:
- UX Research cases
- General/rational concept of Interaction Design vs. User Experience
- Criticisms of and alternatives to Human–computer interaction (HCI)
- Hermeneutics of symbolic interactionism, phenomenology and sociology of knowledge applyed in studies of experience and interaction
- Comparison of qualitative interview methods, surveys, usability testing and ethnography
Submission Procedure
Please submit an abstract of up to 300 words by 31 October to theXP@tutanota.com
The submission should be in Word or PDF format. Full paper formats will be sent after the announcement of acceptance.
2023 MSS Annual Meeting
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