Rafael Capurro is one of the pioneers of the hermeneutic approach to information studies, especially with regard to ethical issues. One of the main goals of his study is to understand “ethos” in the information society. Capurro’s ideas concerning the information technology are different from those of Dreyfus although they both have hermeneutic viewpoints. The scope of his study is widened in hi...

This article illustrates how the hermeneutic analysis of text illuminates how shared understandings affect our interpretations of lean communication in distributed work environments. It is proposed that in contrast to the pessimistic conclusions of media richness theory that lean communication channels cannot support complex or equivocal work tasks, miscommunications are not the result of techn...

Conducting a literature review is a vital part of any research. Library and information science (LIS) professionals often play a central role in supporting academics in their efforts to locate relevant publications and in teaching novice researchers skills associated with literature reviews. This paper examines literature review processes with the aim to contribute to better understanding of th...

In this paper, the author examines phenomenology and hermeneutics as research traditions and proposes a philosophical basis for their use. The author develops an iterative research process model that meets the needs of socio-technical research into technical innovation. This rigorous hybrid methodology is called hermeneutic phenomenology and is shown to be an excellent approach to dealing with ...

One major criticism of direct or active perception (and other forms of embodied action) from the perspective of cognitive psycology is that, according to common sense, there are some actions that require strictly symbolic information — for example, to stop a car in response to a red traffic light — which fall outside the realm of a perception-action cycle. Although such cognitive responses are ...

This paper aims to develop a complex articulation of the civic meaningfulness of voluntary work that clarifies its political importance as a countervailing narrative pointing beyond dominant neoliberal and consumptive articulations of a good life. To start with, it sketches a hermeneutic perspective on civic meaningfulness based on the work of Paul Ricoeur. Subsequently, it introduces the ideas...

We want more than we have realistically possibilities to do. Caregivers are aware about how they have to act in the daily work in patient settings. Still we have to stat that we don ́t can guarantee ethically good care of patients. Aim: Aim of the study is to describe and explain the relationship between the ethos of caring and nursing intensity, based on a theory model developed by a hermeneuti...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a nurse's understanding of the concept of confidence and what a nurse thinks affects the experience of confidence in the patient relationship. The project has a hermeneutic design using a research interview method. Nine nurses were interviewed. A hermeneutic approach was used in the analysis of the data. Interpretation of the data was linked to Segest...

Recent CHI publications and workshops have indicated an interest in the relationship between interactive art and HCI. This year’s conference theme of art.science.balance also creates an opening for discussion between the two disciplines. This paper contributes to this discussion by presenting some challenges to dialogue between interactive art and HCI. I then illustrate by way of example affini...

A unifying picture to the hermeneutical approach to schizophrenia is given by combining the philosophical and the experimental/computational approaches. Computational models of associative learning and recall in the corticohippocampal system helps to understand the circuits of normal and pathological behavior.