Abstract
Subjective Evidence-Based Ethnography (SEBE) is a family of methods developed in digital ethnography for investigation in social science based on subjective audio–video recordings using first-person perspective. Recordings are used for self-confrontation (collect subjective experience, discussion of findings and final interpretation). Several studies applying SEBE methods mentioned “introspection” as a process occurring during self-confrontation and discussed it without providing evidence of its occurrence. This article aimed at clarifying introspection and its occurrence in SEBE. After a literature review addressing introspection, the process of introspection in SEBE was analyzed, depicted and illustrated by a case study. Conditions for introspection to occur in SEBE and the related mechanisms were proposed: it was found that indirect introspection could actually occur but not frequently and could go unnoticed without lessening the quality of the analysis. A refined analysis of introspection during or after the interviews was not identified as an added-value for the activity analysis.
Highlights
Accessing subjects’ action during activities inevitably refers to activity analysis and to the cognitive task analysis paradigm which regroups methodologies for job or task design and analysis
The Subjective EvidenceBased Ethnography (SEBE) is a family of methods developed in digital ethnography for investigation in social science based on subjective audio–video recordings or subfilms using miniature video cameras
The model mobilized for introspection during the SEBE replay interview was this of an interaction of the Selft+Δt on the Selft relying on episodic memory
Summary
Accessing subjects’ action during activities inevitably refers to activity analysis and to the cognitive task analysis paradigm which regroups methodologies for job or task design and analysis. Process tracing methods have developed with the recent progress of miniaturized camera. Process tracing is capturing expertise during activity performance through audio and/or video recording, followed by an analysis phase of the recordings. Process tracing methods may be referred to as Subjective EvidenceBased Ethnography (SEBE) as defined by Lahlou (2011). The SEBE is a family of methods developed in digital ethnography for investigation in social science based on subjective audio–video recordings or subfilms (the first-person perspective: Pea 1994; Omodei et al 2005; Knoblauch et al 2006; Goldman et al 2007; Petitmengin 2009; Rix-Lièvre and Lièvre 2010; Lahlou 2011) using miniature video cameras (usually worn at eye-level by subjects: the subcam). Subfilms are used for self-confrontation with subjects to collect their subjective experience, discussion of findings and final interpretations between researchers and subjects
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