[Xmca-l] Re: Conceptual Models in CHI or Socio Technical Systems

[peter jones]

Hello Greg and all,
The points you raise below and in the (brief look) discussion suggests you might consider as one idea / resource - Hodges' model (better described as) a conceptual framework.
Originally created in health care and education in mid-1980s with four purposes:   
   - Reflection and critical thinking;
   - Person-centered care;
   - Help bridge the theory - practice gap;
   - Facilitate holistic care (physical, mental, social...).

Hodges' model is broad (like Activity Theory as per your note) but it is also generic, universal, situated and actually 'generational' in that a concept it is based upon is the 'health career'.
This is NOT health jobs - professionalism (but can be - as a situation and context) but refers to the idea of 'LIFE CHANCES'.
With 'generations' and your aims and objectives there is far more commonality...

This concept and the model's structure gives rise to four knowledge domains.
Your references to brainstorming, illustration, framing, 'spaces' and diagrams also 'fit'.
There is a paper on the model's socio-technical applications:
Jones, P. (2009) Socio-Technical Structures, the Scope of Informatics and Hodges’ model, IN, Staudinger, R., Ostermann, H., Bettina Staudinger, B. (Eds.), Handbook of Research in Nursing Informatics and Socio-Technical Structures, Idea Group Publishing, Inc. Chap. 11, pp. 160-174.
I have attended several events on socio-technical approaches. 

Additional papers are listed on the blog:
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/

The model can also be related (I believe) to Gardenfor's 'Conceptual Spaces' and Meyer & Land's 'Threshold Concepts' (theoretical underpinnings?).

The blog includes many posts on these too and 'sociotechnical' - 'socio-technical'.
A key (for your community and 'mine' in health care) is POLITICAL which is one of the four domains.
In this respect the model is more relevant now than ever:
human rightsinformation accessconsentgovernment policy - climate changemental capacitylawdata securitycorporationsgender politicsAIdemographic change - employmentmigrationpopulismfake news
....

I still maintain the ambition to create online a 'reflective workbench'.
Even your 'users' with skills but without motivation can be represented in Hodges' model.
The (INDIVIDUAL) intra- interpersonal domain which includes - cognition, beliefs, attitudes, 'personality', values, trust, competence, motivation, emotion, mood, education, aptitude, memory ...

While socio-technical operates diagonally in the model, there are other disciplinary bridges:
SOCIO-ECONOMICPHYSICO-POLITICALPSYCHO-SOMATICMIND-BODY 
BIO-PSYCHO-SOCIALGEO-POLITICAL[SUBJECTIVE - OBJECTIVE][QUALITATIVE - QUANTITATIVE]
...

I'd be pleased to try to answer any questions and f/w papers if needed. Also keen to network and potentially collaborate.
I hope this is some help Greg?
Peter Jones
Community Mental Health Nurse & Researcher
CMHT Brookside
Aughton Street
Ormskirk L39 3BH, UK
Blogging at "Welcome to the QUAD"
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/h2cm
 

    On Saturday, 2 March 2019, 15:19:49 GMT, Greg Mcverry <jgregmcverry@gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Hello everyone,
As many of you know I am an active member an open source community #IndieWeb..
We have used a model to represent the software gaol called generations: https://indieweb.org/generations
We want to rethink the model, for background discussion see: thttps://chat.indieweb.org/meta/2019-03-02#t1551491484847800
Basically what happened is the model lead to classifying people rather than snapshots of time and software develoipment.
So we want a new conceptual model:
   
   - Recognize the bidirectional relationship between the software, the community, the learner.
   - We stress first way to change the world is to change your self (get a website)
   - We want to account some people want to increase their skills and learn more complicated tech
   - Others may have all the skills but not want to be bothered
   - We also do not address the economic role social media plays..using their capital to ensure dominance..not sure we need to

This will be a long term project as we try to reconceptualize our tiny effort to save the web from corporate power.
I am reading up a bit on "systems innovations" from those who take ecological views of socio human technical systems 
(traditional information processing seems to be be where the generations thinking first came into manufacturing research...though used differently as idea generation or hardware generation)
But we want to come at this from multiple perspcetives. Already using Activity Theory but its' too broad. Basically want to rethink that into our context.
Anyone know of examples or fields we should check out?
(btw if you ever want a self organized learning space to study IndieWeb community is fascinating)
Greg

  
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