Reading Aloud Practices: Providing Joint Accessibility to Texts within an Unfamiliar Interface-Mediated Game Activity

Svenja Heuser

ISBN 10: 3631904932 / ISBN 13: 9783631904930

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Okt 2023, 2023

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This work examines the practice of reading aloud in the interactional context of adult participants engaging in an interface-mediated collaborative game activity. With a conversation analytic approach onto video data of user studies, empirical cases of reading aloud are presented. It is shown how participants multimodally co-organise reading aloud in-interaction for providing accessibility to game text in a game that is unfamiliar to them. With reading aloud, participants meet the interactional challenge of making game text audibly accessible that is not always visually accessible for all participant alike. This practice is not only conducted for another but with another in a truly joint fashion, working as a continuer to accomplish the unfamiliar game. 202 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Aloud Practices: Providing Joint Accessibility to Texts within an Unfamiliar Interface-Mediated Game Activity
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Okt 2023
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631904932
• ISBN 13: 9783631904930
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 16D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 380 grams

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Synopsis

This work explores the practice of reading aloud in the interaction context of adult participants engaged in an interface-mediated collaborative gaming activity. Using a conversation analytic approach onto video data, it is shown that reading aloud is meeting the practical challenge of jointly accomplishing the unfamiliar game.

About the Author

Svenja Heuser holds a PhD degree from the University of Luxemburg. She conducts empirical research in the field of communication science, using the qualitative method of Conversation Analysis in its multimodal understanding. Her areas of interest lie in human multiparty face-to-face interaction as well as human-technology interaction. She started her career in the industry and has been working as a consultant in digitalisation and IT consulting since the beginning of 2023.