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Journal articles on the topic "User. lived experience. meaning"
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Heubner, Joanne, and Joyce Tryssenaar. "Development of an Occupational Therapy Practice Perspective in a Homeless Shelter: A Fieldwork Experience." Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy 63, no. 1 (April 1996): 24–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000841749606300104.
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This paper describes the lived experience of a student occupational therapist at a homeless shelter. This phenomenological experience was captured through journal entries, used initially as a communication tool with the supervising therapist. Retrospective content analysis of the journal revealed a dual search for meaning: by the residents, as they sought for meaning in their chaotic lives; and the student as she searched for meaning in the role of the occupational therapist. Key themes included the importance of rapport, and the residents' innate drive towards purposeful activity. The student developed activity opportunities for people identified as lower functioning, with concommitant psychiatric difficulties. The restraints of the physical setting did not discourage people with significant dysfunction from involvement. Positive changes in psychosocial functioning also were observed. This lived experience indicates the potential of occupational therapy as an ideal profession for addressing the myriad of problems associated with the shelter population.
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Selseng, Lillian Bruland, Brit-Marie Follevåg, and Håvard Aaslund. "How People with Lived Experiences of Substance Use Understand and Experience User Involvement in Substance Use Care: A Synthesis of Qualitative Studies." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 19 (September 28, 2021): 10219. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910219.
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There is a need for more knowledge on how people with substance use problems (SUPs) understand and experience user involvement when receiving care. In this systematic review, we identify and reanalyse the existing qualitative research that explores how people with lived experiences of substance use understand user involvement, and their experiences of key practices for achieving user involvement. We systematically searched seven electronic databases. We applied Noblit and Hare’s meta-ethnography, revised by Malterud, to identify, translate, and summarise the studies. The electronic search resulted in 2065 articles. We conducted a full-text evaluation of 63 articles, of which 12 articles met the inclusion criteria. The primary studies’ synthesis reveals three different understandings of user involvement: user involvement as joint meaning production, points of view represented, and user representation in welfare services. Key practices for achieving user involvement involved seeing and respecting the service user as a unique person, the quality of the interactional process, and the scope of action for people with SUPs, as well as professionals, including issues of stigma, power, and fatalism. The metasynthesis recognises the ambiguity of the concept of user involvement concept and the importance of including the service user’s perspective when defining user involvement. The analysis of key practices emphasises the importance of relational processes and contextual aspects when developing user involvement concepts.
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Sierra González, Ángela. "La resignificación del futuro: una reconceptualización del concepto de igualdad." Clepsydra. Revista de Estudios de Género y Teoría Feminista 25 (2023): 13–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.clepsydra.2023.25.02.
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"The term “resignification” leads us to a conceptualization that involves an act of granting a new meaning or, of a change of interpretive meaning, to actions, contexts, and experiences. This means that the resignification supposes to confer a value, or a meaning different from the one used to the circumstances to which it is applied. Thus, giving new meaning to experiences consists in assigning another meaning to them, and it should be added that assigning a new meaning to lived experiences is the end of a process that is carried out from another perspective. Giving new meaning, then, is fundamental for the transformation of the perception of the lived contexts themselves and their implications. The punctual and discontinuous moments of the assumed experience of the «moments of being» are transformed, to dignify them or, on the contrary, to devalue them. In this work, certain future projections are analyzed, which are considered not only as possible, but also as desirable. It is about seeing if the promised futures are such or if they continue to be a part of a present of inequalities."
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Lowe, Sid, Astrid Kainzbauer, Slawomir Jan Magala, and Maria Daskalaki. "International business and the Balti of meaning: food for thought." Journal of Organizational Change Management 28, no. 2 (April 13, 2015): 177–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-11-2014-0209.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the interactive processes linking lived embodied experiences, language and cognition (body-talk-mind) and their implications for organizational change. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use an “embodied realism” approach to examine how people feel/perceive/act (embodied experiences), how they make sense of their experiences (cognition) and how they use language and communication to “talk sense” into their social reality. To exemplify the framework, the authors use a cooking metaphor. In this metaphor, language is the “sauce”, the catalyst, which blends raw, embodied, “lived” experience with consequent rationalizations (“cooking up”) of experience. To demonstrate the approach, the authors employ the study of a Chinese multinational subsidiary in Bangkok, Thailand, where participants were encouraged to build embodied models and tell their stories through them. Findings – The authors found that participants used embodied metaphors in a number of ways (positive and negative connotations) in different contexts (single or multicultural groups) for different purposes. Participants could be said to be “cooking up” realities according to the situated context. The methodology stimulated an uncovering of ineffable, tacit or sensitive issues that were problematic or potentially problematic within the organization. Originality/value – The authors bring back the importance of lived embodied experiences, language and cognition into IB research. The authors suggest that embodied metaphors capture descriptions of reality that stimulate reflexivity, uncover suppressed organizational problems and promote the contestation of received wisdoms when organizational change is pressing and urgent. The authors see the approach as offering the potential to give voice to embodied cultures throughout the world and thereby make IB research more practically relevant.
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Abdollahpour, Sedigheh, Abbas Heydari, Hosein Ebrahimipour, Farhad Faridhosseini, and Talat Khadivzadeh. "Understanding the Meaning of Lived Experience "Maternal Near Miss": A Qualitative Study Protocol." Journal of Caring Sciences 10, no. 1 (February 28, 2021): 43–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/jcs.2021.008.
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Abstract Introduction:Maternal near-miss (MNM) is defined as "a woman who almost died but survived a serious maternal complication during pregnancy, childbirth, or within 42 days of completion of pregnancy". Despite the long-term physical and psychological burden of this event on the mother’s life, the meaning of MNM is not clear. In addition, the mother’s role complicates the understanding of this phenomenon. Therefore, this study aimed to understand lived experience of Iranian "near-miss" mothers in the postpartum period. Methods:In this Heideggerian phenomenological study, we used Souza and colleagues’ theoretical framework to understand the meaning of the lived experience of near-miss mothers in-depth. The participants had experienced MNM at least one year ago by World Health Organization (WHO)approach in multicenter, academic, tertiary care hospitals in Mashhad, Iran. Taking into account reflexivity and after obtaining ethical approval, participants were purposively sampled using semi-structured interviews, and data analysis was conducted by Diekelmann and colleagues up to data saturation. Data collection and analysis has been argued by Lincoln and Guba. Discussion:Our findings resulted in updating the existing knowledge about the meaning of MNM and its implication. Given the different needs and challenges of near-miss mothers, it is necessary to design a supportive program of primary care for them. Policymakers and managers should consider the lived experience of these mothers when planning and taking decisions.
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Qutoshi, Sadruddin Bahadur. "Phenomenology: A Philosophy and Method of Inquiry." Journal of Education and Educational Development 5, no. 1 (May 30, 2018): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.22555/joeed.v5i1.2154.
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<p> <em>Phenomenology as a philosophy and a method of inquiry is not limited to an approach to knowing, it is rather an intellectual engagement in interpretations and meaning making that is used to understand the lived world of human beings at a conscious level. Historically, Husserl’ (1913/1962) perspective of phenomenology is a science of understanding human beings at a deeper level by gazing at the phenomenon. However, Heideggerian view of interpretive-hermeneutic phenomenology gives wider meaning to the lived experiences under study. Using this approach, a researcher uses bracketing as a taken for granted assumption in describing the natural way of appearance of phenomena to gain insights into lived experiences and interpret for meaning making. The data collection and analysis takes place side by side to illumine the specific experience to identify the phenomena that is perceived by the actors in a particular situation. The outcomes of a phenomenological study broadens the mind, improves the ways of thinking to see a phenomenon, and it enables to see ahead and define researchers’ posture through intentional study of lived experiences. However, the subjectivity and personal knowledge in perceiving and interpreting it from the research participant’s point of view has been central in phenomenological studies. To achieve such an objective, phenomenology could be used extensively in social sciences.</em></p>
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Doyle, Susanna. "Negotiating meaning – the experience of community aged care." Journal of Adult Protection 19, no. 1 (February 13, 2017): 10–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jap-09-2016-0020.
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Purpose A framework for achieving what Heidegger referred to as a “fusion of horizons” of understanding, was developed during a study into the experience of a group of older adults receiving care. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The interpretive hermeneutic phenomenological methodology provided strategies for enabling a researcher to shift his or her understanding to be closer to that of the older adult receiving care, to better understand the experience of receiving care from the perspective of a recipient. Older adults participated in research exploring their everyday lived experiences, and contributed to the researcher’s understanding of the personal impact of care. Findings The older adults in this study perceived care in essentially relational terms, and raised the importance of maintaining personal autonomy and relationships as central to maintain meaning in daily life. This framework for successfully achieving a “fusion of horizons” during research is discussed and proposed as a potential strategy for also supporting active participation by adults in their own care provision. Originality/value This strategy might be used as a way of enhancing the engagement, safety and satisfaction of older adults, thereby also assisting to protect them from potentially negative influences of power differentials impacting on their care experience.
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Tauba, Ahmad Mumtaz, Suryani Suryani, and Imas Rafiyah. "The Lived Experiences of the Lombok Earthquake Survivors." Nurse Media Journal of Nursing 10, no. 1 (April 18, 2020): 22–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/nmjn.v10i1.24964.
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Background: The large-scale earthquake which had struck off Lombok, an island in West Nusa Tenggara, made the survivors faced poor conditions, difficulties, and lack of supplies. Besides physical losses, the survivors also experienced various psychological health disorders that significantly affected their psychological condition as well as life.Purpose: This study was aimed at exploring and gaining deeper meaning from the lived experiences of the Lombok earthquake survivors.Methods: This study used a qualitative method with a descriptive phenomenological approach to elucidate the phenomena from experiences. The participants were ten (10) survivors of the Lombok earthquake, who were determined by purposive sampling. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and analyzed using Colaizzi's method.Results: The results showed six emerging themes, including (1) problems solving skills when disaster strikes, (2) surviving from the limitations and difficulties, (3) feeling accustomed to earthquake, (4) family is a key source of strength to continue life, (5) getting closer to God by doing religious prayers and actions to have peace of mind, and (6) learning from the disasters to become a better human being.Conclusion: The lived experience of the Lombok earthquake survivors was a long journey where they survived and adapted the difficult situations, as later, they could turn the under-pressure conditions to chances for their personal development. The findings of this study provide insights for nurses to greatly contribute to solving post-disaster psychological issues by strengthening the survivors’ religious aspects, trauma healing, play therapy, and peer-support group.
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Fisher, Hennie, and Gerrie Du Rand. "A Western Cape Food Tour: Examining Indigenous Foods in Eateries Through the Lived Experience Model." International Conference on Tourism Research 7, no. 1 (March 11, 2024): 100–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/ictr.7.1.2077.
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Drawing attention to indigenous foods is economically advantageous for local communities growing plants to sell to the food industry, to promote food tourism and establishing alternative food systems characterised by lower costs, lessened environmental impact, and local availability. There is evidence that indigenous land stewardship could reinforce indigenous food sovereignty by recovering indigenous foods that could disappear. Although South African cuisine is not globally recognised as an ethnic cuisine, interest in it is growing, as its recent 52nd ranking (out of 100) on the TasteAtlas.com global cuisine rankings for 2023/2024 shows. Increasing understanding, availability, and celebration of indigenous foods in commercial eateries is therefore critical, along with an understanding of their sociocultural contextuality. Lived experience was the predominant guiding methodological model for this research. The researchers used qualitative phenomenological reporting to present their first-hand lived experiences, along with knowledge gained through meaning making of indigenous and heritage foods. Although this model has been criticised for methodology slurring, attention to academic rigour (in line with Husserl and Heidegger’s applied philosophical viewpoints) ensured that the knowledge gained was grounded in the researchers’ own experiences. The researchers report key insights and meaning making from their eating experiences and indigenous foods found during a food tour from 17 to 22 September 2023, along a predetermined road route within the Western Cape province of South Africa. This research contributes to the unique application of lived experience within the hospitality and tourism environments, and particularly the application of IPA (Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis) to assess participants’ ways of making meaning of indigenous food offerings found in eateries in detail.
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Pienkos, Elizabeth, Steven Silverstein, and Louis Sass. "The Phenomenology of Anomalous World Experience in Schizophrenia: A Qualitative Study." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 48, no. 2 (October 20, 2017): 188–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341328.
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AbstractThis current study is a pilot project designed to clarify changes in the lived world among people with diagnoses within the schizophrenia spectrum. The Examination of Anomalous World Experience (eawe) was used to interview ten participants with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (sz) and a comparison group of three participants with major depressive disorder (dep). Interviews were analyzed using the descriptive phenomenological method. This analysis revealed two complementary forms of experience unique toszparticipants: Destabilization, the experience that reality and the intersubjective world are less comprehensible, less stable, and generally less real; and Subjectivization, the dominance of one’s internal, subjective experiences in the perception or interpretation of the lived world. Persons with depressive disorders, by contrast, did not experience disruptions of the reality or independence of the world or any significant disruptions of appearance or meaning. These results are consistent with contemporary and classic phenomenological views on anomalous world experience in schizophrenia.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "User. lived experience. meaning"
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Stark, Jessica. "A Day in the Life of a Sim: Making Meaning of Video Game Avatars and Behaviors." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1497718914530561.
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Åström, Gunilla. "The meaning of caring as narrated, lived, moral experience." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för omvårdnad, 1995. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-100560.
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The purpose of this research was to understand the meaning of caring as narrated, lived, moral experience. Forty-five good nurses experienced in the care of patients in surgical, medical and geriatric wards were interviewed. They described their experience of; caring, caring abilities, the worthwhile of caring, the strength related to caring and narrated situations (n=88) in which they had experienced that their caring had made a difference to the patient. Surgical nurses described care and cure as an integrated whole, medical nurses described care as integrated with the patients' social context and geriatric nurses described care as enhancing the autonomy of patients (I). The nurses' narrated, lived, experiences of caring situations revealed ways of intervening and interacting with the patient including caring actions (II). Eighteen good nurses experienced in the care of cancer patients were also interviewed. Their narrated, lived experiences of morally difficult care situations i.e. situations where it had been hard to know what was the right and good thing to do for the patient (n=60), revealed that relationships with their co-workers were very important for their possibility to act according to their moral reasoning and feelings(III). The situations for the nurses were either disclosed as overwhelming or possible to grasp. When narrating about these situations the nurses used different terms about themselves and their co-workers (One, They, I and We). The nurses viewed the patients either as a task to be accomplished or as a valuable unique person. In the latter situations ethical demands were interpreted, judged and acted upon (IV). Interpretations of these nurses' skills in managing morally difficult care situations disclosed two levels; one group of nurses who described positive paradigm cases, liberating maxims and disclosed open minds, while the other group described negative paradigm cases, restrictive maxims and revealed closed minds. The latter nurses were mostly the nurses who disclosed in Paper III that they used the term "one" about themselves and "they" about their co-workers (V).en patients recently cared for at surgical and medical wards were interviewed(IV). They narrated lived experiences of receiving/not receiving the help they needed or wanted when suffering from pain and anxiety/fear. The patients revealed that the most important thing for them to feel cared for in these situations was to be listened to, taken seriously and trusted, if they were not treated in this way the patients revealed that they felt they were in the hands of somebody who was uncaring. The findings are interpreted within the framework of Paul Tillich's philosophy concerning love, power, justice and courage, thereby showing the tension between these phenomena in the narrated, lived, moral experience. Light is also thrown on the dynamics of openness, vulnerability, fallibility, forgiveness, affirmation as well as powerlessness, meaninglessness, insufficiency, dissociation and exclusion. Reflections are made concerning practical wisdom.S. 1-60: sammanfattning, s. 61-151: 6 uppsatser
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Fochtman, Dianne. "Understanding the Meaning of the Lived Experience of Adolescents in Treatment for Cancer." Diss., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/22052.
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The increased intensity and complexity of cancer treatment has an impact on the lives of the adolescents undergoing such treatments. Living with cancer is a distinct experience for them which include physical, psychological, spiritual and social dimensions. The cancer experience comprises more than the measurement of symptom occurrence, frequency, duration and severity, or the ratings of quality oflife. The meanings of the lived experience from the adolescent's perspective and self-report can give a more accurate, holistic picture of the nature and scope of the experience. Practitioners need to know and understand the meaning of the experience from the adolescent's perspective in order to design appropriate interventions to prevent or relieve distress in these patients.
The purpose of this study was to describe the meanings of the lived experience ofhaving cancer for adolescents undergoing treatment. Phenomenology was the qualitative research methodology used. As outlined by Patricia Munhall, this methodology seeks to understand the meaning of lived experiences. Seven adolescents, 14 to 18 years of age, in treatment for cancer were interviewed. Six males and one female participated in this study. Six were receiving treatment for acute lymphocytic leukemia and one for a solid tumor. All participants were of Pacific Island origin; two live in Hawaii and five were temporary residents. The audio taped interviews were transcribed and analyzed to understand the meaning of the cancer experience. The essence of the experience for the individual adolescent was described and a composite interpretation of the meaning derived.
Recommendations to healthcare providers for improving communication with adolescents in treatment for cancer are provided, including discussing death and dying early in the illness trajectory. The interdisciplinary concept of care is stressed, as well as the importance of a thorough physical examination. The importance of social support and techniques to potentially strengthen and increase this support are outlined. Solutions to the problems of school reintegration are introduced.
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Herfst, Andrew. "The meaning of the lived experience of nonattachment for long-term yoga practitioners." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61163.
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Yoga is a popular alternative mental health intervention and an integral component of leading mindfulness-based interventions. Yoga helps with concerns like anxiety and depression (e.g., Field, 2011), but we do not yet understand how it helps. With the aim of developing more potent theoretical models of therapeutic yoga, there have been calls in the literature to explore yoga’s underlying principles and constructs, and to use qualitative research methods to look at the lived experience of healthy, long-term practitioners (e.g., Field, 2011; Solomonova, 2015). Mindful nonattachment (e.g., Sahdra, Brown, & Shaver, 2010), which is associated with the promotion of psychological freedom, emotion regulation, well-being, and distress tolerance (e.g., Desbordes et al., 2014; Sahdra et al., 2010; Shapiro, Carlson, Astin, & Freedman, 2006), is an important underlying construct in yoga and may be a helping factor not only in mindfulness, but across psychotherapeutic modalities. This research project investigates the meaning of the lived experience of nonattachment for four long-term yoga practitioners from Vancouver BC. Using Smith, Flowers, and Larkin’s (2009) method of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, interviews with long-term yoga practitioners were conducted to explore their experience of nonattachment in detail. Six superordinate themes emerged: a flexible identity in relationship, developing nonattachment moment by moment, how to see things differently, processing lived experience, choosing freedom, and framework for a way of life. Areas of congruence with the literature and novel findings are discussed in view of the relevant literature on nonattachment and on self-regulatory features of yoga.Education, Faculty of
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
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Cooper, Holly. "The lived experience of meaning in life and satisfaction with life among older adults." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/4398.
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Cassidy, Elizabeth Emma. "An exploration of the lived experience of progressive cerebellar ataxia : an interpretative phenomenological analysis." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7547.
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Background and Purpose: Progressive cerebellar ataxia is a rare neurological condition characterised by uncoordinated movement, and impaired speech articulation. Rehabilitation and physiotherapy in particular, form the cornerstone of healthcare intervention. Little qualitative research has been undertaken to understand the subjective experience of this complex condition. This study explored the experience of progressive cerebellar ataxia, physiotherapy and physiotherapy services from the perspective of people living with this condition. Method: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis underpinned this inductive qualitative enquiry. Twelve people with a progressive cerebellar ataxia participated in semi-structured interviews. All participants had some experience of physiotherapy. Interviews were transcribed. A case by case idiographic analysis was undertaken followed by a cross case analysis. Findings: Five super-ordinate themes were identified. ‘The embodied experience of progressive cerebellar ataxia’ emphasised the foregrounding of the body, and the disruption of the skilful interaction between body and world. ‘Identity, stigma and disrupted embodiment in public spaces and places’ encapsulated how participants made sense of actual and perceived stigma and discrimination. ‘Lifeworld meets biomedicine: a complex juxtaposition’ described participants’ problematic relationships with healthcare practitioners and their disease-centric world. ‘Wresting control in the face of uncertain and changing forces’ portrayed participants’ attempts to understand and reinterpret their condition on their own terms. ‘Exercise: a multifaceted contributor to managing life with ataxia’ captured the meaning of exercise and physical activity. One over-arching theme, ‘Retaining a homelike way of being-in-the-world’, cautiously indicated that whilst participants described ‘unhomelike’ lifeworlds (uncomfortable and disturbing); they simultaneously held onto, and sometimes realised, the possibility of ‘homecoming’, for example through the generation of new modes of belonging. Conclusion: This study provided a detailed, phenomenological account of the lived experience of progressive cerebellar ataxia. New insights were developed that have the capacity to inform not only physiotherapy practice but also other healthcare disciplines. New avenues for future research were also identified.
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Iaquinta, Maria. "The experience and meaning of career decision-making as lived by women with brain injury." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30893.
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Through explicit attention to diversity and a positive psychology frame, this
phenomenological inquiry investigated the experience of career decision-making for women
with brain injury. This group has been previously ignored in the career development and
counselling, vocational psychology, and psychology literatures. There is a paucity of
information about the subjective experience of career decision-making. The purpose of this
study was to give women with brain injury a greater priority in career research and to
illuminate the lived experience and meaning of career decision-making from the perspective
of women with brain injury.
Eight volunteers, involved in the community as a worker, volunteer, or student,
described their career decision-making experiences through in-depth audio-taped interviews.
Notwithstanding the initial severity of brain injury, participants richly articulated and
illuminated their personal experience and meaning of career decision-making. Six common
themes and five sub-themes emerged from a thematic analysis of the interview data. These
were: (1) Continued Centrality of Career comprised of two interrelated sub-themes: the
intensified meaning of paid work career, and the influence of rehabilitation in career
decision-making; (2) Continued Centrality of the Relational in Career; (3) Sense of Life
Purpose and Altered Life Perspective with a concomitant sub-theme of increased agency in
career decision-making; (4) Sense of Continuity and Change in Identity; (5) Sense of
Increased Vulnerability in Interactions comprised of two inversely related sub-themes: the
sense of being devalued, and the sense of equality; and (6) Sense of Insecurity and
Emotionality. The findings of this study revealed the experience of career-decision making to be a
highly complex ongoing experience imbued with emotion and subjective meaning. Social
interactions and the societal context, giving rise to positive or negative emotions, facilitated
or obstructed the women's experience of career decision-making. These findings point to a.
critical need for training about the potential of women with brain injury for rehabilitation and
counselling professionals. The theoretical implications of the findings are discussed as they
relate to research in brain injury and career. The implications for career counselling process,
in relation to models of career-decision making and career counselling, are discussed and
recommendations for future research are provided.Education, Faculty of
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
Graduate
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Harcourt, Charles. "Myanmar Students Seeking Higher Education in the United States| Illuminating Meaning in Stories of Lived Experience." Thesis, Prescott College, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10816594.
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This research aimed to understand, explore, and find meaning in the participants’ experiences with the phenomenon of overcoming adversity to pursue higher education. The structure and methodology employed in this qualitative research endeavor were guided by hermeneutic phenomenology. Data collection was conducted over the course of five weeks with partner organizations in the cities of Yangon and Mandalay in Myanmar. Interviews were conducted with Myanmar students who were in the process of seeking higher education in the U.S. Observation and informal interviews with professional staff were also important data collection methods that were used to build an understanding of the situational context for the participants’ experiences. The analysis procedure followed a phenomenological reduction procedure and sought to illuminate the essence of the phenomenon by producing narrative descriptions of the participants’ experiences, as well as identifying and reflecting upon shared experiences among the participant group.
The topic of this research had particularly timely importance because Myanmar’s government and society were going through a period of significant transition, moving from decades of military rule to a parliamentary republic. This research examined ways in which this change and other situational factors impacted students’ abilities to access higher education abroad. This study also addressed a gap in the existing research, specifically the need for qualitative research concerning Myanmar students’ experiences in education and access to higher education abroad. The research approached this need by collecting and sharing the voices of individuals who had direct, personal experience with the changes and challenges in the education system and access to higher education in Myanmar.
The findings of this study indicated that Myanmar students experienced systemic adversity and individual challenges that negatively impacted their access to opportunities for higher education abroad. For the participants, these challenges began at the primary education level and followed them through the college application and enrollment process. For many of the students, the instructional methods and curriculum content they experienced in local primary and secondary schools was inadequate and left them ill-prepared for higher education abroad. For the participants in this study, their educational aspirations led them to seek additional advising and support to help them reach their goals in higher education. Despite finding help from advisors and educators, it was clear that these students were struggling in a flawed system, which included many barriers that impeded students’ access to higher education abroad. For most of the students, their families were unable to pay the full cost of tuition for college in the U.S., so they needed to apply for scholarships or to colleges that provide need-based assistance to international students. The international reaction to violence in their home country and the election of U.S. President Trump added to the students’ feelings of anxiety in an already complicated process. Despite the individual challenges and systemic adversity that they faced, the student participants maintained a sense of hope for themselves and their country. They believed that they would each be able to continue to overcome the difficulties they faced and be able to achieve their dreams of studying at a U.S. college or university. They also knew that if they could better their own lives with higher education, then they would be in a position to have a greater positive impact on the lives of others and the situation in their home country of Myanmar.
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Marescot, Vanessa. "Dispositifs pédagogiques innovants à l’université. Diversité méthodologique pour le recueil et l’analyse de l’expérience des usagers : étude du cas NCU PRéLUDE." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Valenciennes, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023UPHF0036.
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Ce travail doctoral a pour objectif de questionner l’expérience vécue par les usagers dans les dispositifs pédagogiques innovants mis en place à l’université. En effet, les différentes vagues de massification de l’accès au supérieur ont introduit une diversification du public étudiant dont la réussite est devenue une priorité. Les discriminants de la réussite sont nombreux, et les facteurs contextuels, dont les pratiques pédagogiques des enseignants en font partie. Ainsi, la transformation pédagogique et numérique est au cœur de différents appels à projet visant à soutenir financièrement l’université dans ses évolutions. Le mode de fonctionnement compétitif des appels à projet et l’émulation qu’il insuffle, fait émerger des propositions de dispositifs de plus en plus innovants. A l’autre bout de la chaîne, des acteurs mettent en œuvre, expérimentent et vivent ces dispositifs sur le terrain. L’objet de ce travail de recherche est d’interroger les acteurs et notamment les étudiants sur leur vécu dans ces innovations pédagogiques, dans le cadre du projet PRéLUDE, un des lauréats du PIA 3 Nouveaux Cursus Universitaires. La recherche est abordée suivant une approche constructiviste, dans une démarche inductive. Elle a utilisé des méthodes de recueil variées : questionnaires, entretiens semi-directifs, entretiens Repertory Grid complétés par une collecte documentaire et l’observation participante. Ces méthodes ont produit des données quantitatives et qualitatives, analysées avec des méthodes quantitatives et qualitatives. Cette diversité méthodologique permet d’analyser l’expérience vécue par les usagers, questionnant ainsi le processus de design à la fois dans l’adéquation de l’idéation aux usagers et dans la mise en œuvre effective du projet idéelThe aim of this doctoral work is to examine the experience of users of innovative teaching methods introduced at university. The various waves of massification of access to higher education have led to a diversification of the student population, whose success has become a priority. There are many factors that determine success, including contextual factors such as teaching practices. As a result, educational and digital transformation is at the heart of various calls for projects aimed at providing financial support for the university's development. The competitive nature of these calls for projects and the emulation they engender give rise to increasingly innovative proposals. At the other end of the chain, those involved implement, experiment with and experience these schemes on the ground. The aim of this research project is to question the players, and in particular the students, about their experience of these educational innovations, as part of the PRéLUDE project, one of the winners of the PIA 3 New University Curricula programme. The research is based on a constructivist, inductive approach. It used a variety of data collection methods: questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, Repertory Grid interviews, supplemented by documentary research and participant observation. These methods produced quantitative and qualitative data, analysed using quantitative and qualitative methods. This methodological diversity makes it possible to analyse the experience of users, thus questioning the design process both in terms of how the ideation is adapted to users and in terms of the actual implementation of the ideal project
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Byrne, Rory. "Understanding psychological treatment for psychosis from the perspective of those with lived experience : "What's important to us?"." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/understanding-psychological-treatment-for-psychosis-from-the-perspective-of-those-with-lived-experience-whats-important-to-us(4df9a255-2e71-4f77-9711-317e972a48f8).html.
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This thesis aimed to explore service users’ priorities and preferences for treatment of psychosis-spectrum difficulties, and experiences of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). A literature review (Chapter 1) summarised current understanding and treatment of psychosis. A narrative review of qualitative studies examined treatment priorities and preferences of people with experience of psychosis (Chapter 2), and found that common priorities and preferences included improving social and functional ability, reducing symptoms of psychosis, and individualised, collaborative approaches to care, including alternatives to routine psychiatric treatment. A Delphi study of priorities and preferences for treatment of psychosis was conducted (Chapter 3), and identified priorities that included improving difficult emotional and cognitive states, understanding, coping, and self-esteem, along with treatment preferences such as individualised, collaborative care, greater provision of information, and choice of treatment. Three qualitative studies were conducted. The first (Chapter 4) explored the subjective experiences of young people seen in an Early Detection (ED) for psychosis service. Findings indicated that reluctance to communicate mental health concerns delayed help-seeking for the majority of participants. Disclosure of such concerns to staff in the ED service was considered helpful, especially in the context of CBT. The second qualitative study (Chapter 5) explored subjective experiences of CBT for psychosis. CBT-specific processes were summarised as ‘structured learning’, and the most commonly perceived benefits included improved understanding of psychosis and self, and normalisation. The ‘hard work’ of CBT was also highlighted, especially the disclosure and discussion of difficult life experiences and psychological problems. The third qualitative study (Chapter 6) evaluated experiences of involvement in a randomised trial of CBT for young people at risk of developing psychosis. Having a ‘chance to talk’ about mental health concerns was consistently valued by participants in both the control and the treatment arm of the trial. Valued experiences of CBT included ‘rethinking things’, especially through psychological formulation and re-appraisal of distressing beliefs. Participants also described difficult aspects of CBT, such as personal disclosure, though these were often considered necessary for recovery. Across studies, the importance of individualised, collaborative treatment was highlighted consistently. It is also evident that along with reductions in distressing psychological problems, participants across studies also highly valued social and functional aspects of recovery. The methodological limitations and strengths of these studies, along with implications for clinical practice and future research, are discussed.
Books on the topic "User. lived experience. meaning"
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Meaning of a disability: The lived experience of paralysis. Philadelphia, Penn: Temple University Press, 1999.
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Mccray, Janie Marlene. LEARNING FOR MEANING: THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF RETURNING REGISTERED NURSE LEARNERS. 1995.
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Tweddle, Gail. Precepts of Musashi : How He Lived the Life of a Warrior: Modern Experience Sharepoint Meaning. Independently Published, 2021.
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Ramirez-Valles, Jesus. The Meanings of Latino. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036446.003.0004.
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This chapter discusses the ways in which Latino GBT activists live their lives as “Latinos” in a racial social system. In a parallel fashion to stigma related to gender nonconformity, it treats the racial labeling of groups as stigma. That is, to call someone Latino or to use the label Latino is part of the process of marking differences between groups, creating social separation, and establishing discriminatory practices. This stigmatization reinforces, if not creates, relations of power. From the viewpoint of the labeled group, stigma can take the form of actual experiences; perceptions about how others or the society at large see them; and internalization of the negative views others have in the self.
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Moreman, Christopher M., and A. David Lewis, eds. Digital Death. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400640582.
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This fascinating work explores the meaning of death in the digital age, showing readers the new ways digital technology allows humans to approach, prepare for, and handle their ultimate destiny. With DeadSocial™ one can create messages to be published to social networks after death. Facebook’s “If I Die” enables users to create a video or text message for posthumous publication. Twitter _LIVESON accounts will keep tweeting even after the user is gone. There is no doubt that the digital age has radically changed options related to death, dying, grieving, and remembering, allowing people to say goodbye in their own time and their own unique way. Drawing from a range of academic perspectives, this book is the only serious study to focus on the ways in which death, dying, and memorialization appear in and are influenced by digital technology. The work investigates phenomena, devices, and audiences as they affect mortality, remembrances, grieving, posthumous existence, and afterlife experience. It examines the markets to which the providers of such services are responding, and it analyzes the degree to which digital media is changing views and expectations related to death. Ultimately, the contributors seek to answer an even more important question: how digital existences affect both real-world perceptions of life’s end and the way in which lives are actually lived.
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Cohen, Judith Ann. A TAPESTRY OF CARING: THE LIVED EXPERIENCE AND MEANING OF CARING WITHIN NURSE STUDENT/FACULTY RELATIONSHIP (NURSING EDUCATION, CURRICULUM). 1994.
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Zeitlin, Steve, and Bob Holman. The Poetry of Everyday Life. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501702358.001.0001.
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This is a book of encounters. Part memoir, part essay, and partly a guide to maximizing a capacity for fulfillment and expression, this book taps into the artistic side of what we often take for granted in everyday life: the stories we tell, the people we love, the metaphors used by scientists, even our sex lives. This book explores how poems serve us in daily life and how they are used in times of personal and national crisis. The text explores meaning and experience, covering topics ranging from poetry in the life cycle to the contemporary uses of ancient myths. The book introduces readers to the many eccentric and visionary characters the author has met in his career as a folklorist. Covering topics from Ping-Pong to cave paintings, from family poetry nights to delectable dishes at his favorite ethnic restaurants, the book aims to inspire readers to expand their consciousness of the beauty that resides in everyday things and to use creative expression to engage and animate that beauty toward living a more fulfilling awakened life, full of laughter. To live a creative life is the best way to engage with the beauty of the everyday.
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Forlenza, Rosario. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817444.003.0008.
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The Conclusion contrasts the dominant structuralist and functionalist approaches to democracy and democratization, with the concept of the passage to democracy as an endogenous process of historical and symbolic articulation, and as the symbolization of lived experiences that engender transformations in consciousness, meanings, and beliefs. Rather than assuming a universal and externally determined model for the democratic process, it makes use of the Italian case to argue that democracy is a lengthy and ongoing narrative, and a process of meaning-formation in the context of political and existential uncertainty. Democratizing processes are determined not by socio-economic and cultural factors, not by the pursuit of strategies by the elites, but by a complex interweaving of individual and collective reaction to revolution, war, and dictatorship.
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Weinel, Jonathan. Trance Systems. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190671181.003.0005.
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This chapter explores how sound systems place electronic sounds in a social context, eliciting powerful affective experiences that are framed by conceptual meaning. The chapter begins by tracing the origins of the sound system culture and dub-reggae of Jamaica. This approach, which prioritizes DJ performances over ‘live’ musicians, would prefigure the electronic dance music culture of the 1980s and 1990s. Exploring this area, this chapter examines how the design of Chicago house and Detroit techno provided high-energy dance experiences that reflected the ethos of the respective sub-cultures. Later, in the UK rave scene, breakbeat hardcore, drum & bass, and ambient house each used sound design to support an accelerated youth-culture fuelled by ecstasy, delivering trance-like experiences framed by conceptual meaning. In the global Goa trance and psy-trance scenes, this capability is explicitly characterized as ‘technoshamanic’, and the DJ as a ‘master of ecstasies’.
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Peckruhn, Heike. Meaning in Our Bodies. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280925.001.0001.
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What do our everyday experiences and bodily movements have to do with our theological imagination? How should we draw the connection between lived experience and theology? Feminist theologians, as well as other scholars, appeal to the importance of bodily experiences and perceptions when developing claims regarding social and cultural values and argue that our actions are always meaningful. But where and how do these arguments gain traction beyond mere thinking about methods in religious studies or theological exploring of metaphors? Religious scholars and theologians need to acquire a robust grasp on how sensory perceptions and interactions are cultural and theological acts that are bodily meaning making. This book presents a method of tracing embodied experience in order to account for meaning in everyday movements and encounters by strengthening and refining the concept of “experience” through a set of analytical commitments built on Maurice Merlau-Ponty’s phenomenological concepts. The notion of bodily experience is extended to that which makes up our social and theological knowledges. Bodily perceptual experiences are ways of thinking and orienting in the world, therefore comprising theological imagination. This is demonstrated in historical and cultural comparisons where taste, touch, and emitted sounds may order normalcy, social status, or communal belonging. Constructive body theology as analytical tool is tested in feminist projects known for their explicit turn to experience and embodiment (Carter Heyward, Marcella Althaus-Reid). This book concludes with presentations of constructive possibilities that emerge when everyday bodily experience is utilized effectively as a source for religious and theological inquiries.
Book chapters on the topic "User. lived experience. meaning"
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Calvi, Licia, Bertine Bargeman, Moniek Hover, Juriaan van Waalwijk, Wim Strijbosch, and Ondrej Mitas. "Storytelling as a Tool to Design Museum Experiences: The Case of the Secret Marquise." In Springer Series in Design and Innovation, 423–33. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49811-4_40.
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AbstractThis article describes how the 4 period rooms of the city museum in the Dutch town of Bergen op Zoom were redesigned using storytelling and how this design has been received by visitors. For this redesign, rooms were reframed as sets of the story of Marie Anne van Arenberg, Marquise of Bergen op Zoom, and the objects as props to stage her story, which was full of secrets and of unexpected turning points. The visitor is enticed to discover cues to unlock these secrets in order to get a grip on her story while exploring the museum space. This is however not a treasure hunt, nor simply a game, but an exploration in which visitors are invited to discover and to create meaning and a journey into what matters to them. To this end, they have indeed to resort to their own frame of reference and to their personal life story in order to come to a narrative closure at the end of their visit. We used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to understand the visitors’ lived experience, both emotionally and sensorially at different moments and situations during the story-driven experience and to understand how the chosen design helps tell the story and how visitors use their personal context and frame of reference to make sense of it.
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Currie, Janet L. "The Meaning and Lived Experience of Coping." In Managing Motherhood, 33–42. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0338-8_4.
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Randal, Patte, and Josephine Stanton. "Disruption in Meaning-Making." In Finding Hope in the Lived Experience of Psychosis, 163–68. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003153788-31.
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Li, Xiangyang, and Lianghua Ma. "On the “Meaning System” of Design from Kao Gong Ji." In Design, User Experience, and Usability, 210–19. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35699-5_16.
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Li, Manhai, Xiangyang Xin, and Xiong Ding. "Making Meaning: How Experience Design Supports Data Commercialization." In Design, User Experience, and Usability. Practice and Case Studies, 288–99. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23535-2_22.
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Jung, Eui Chul, and Eun Jeong Kim. "Representing Meaning in User Experience by Visualizing Empirical Data." In Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Aging, Design and User Experience, 147–59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58530-7_10.
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Swanson, Eric H. "Building Design Scenarios the Way Life Is Lived: The Contextual-Scenario Toolkit." In Design, User Experience, and Usability: Design Thinking and Methods, 344–55. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40409-7_33.
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Markkola, Pirjo. "Working-Class Women Living Religion in Finland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century." In Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience, 219–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92140-8_9.
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AbstractMarkkola examines religion as lived and shared by working-class women in an industrial town in Finland. Her chapter explores women’s daily practices as well as various Lutheran and nonconformist revivalist arenas to practice religion at the turn of the twentieth century. These arenas constituted scenes of experience where individual experiences were acquired, interpreted, shared, confirmed, and turned into collective resources. The scenes of experience provided working-class women an institutional setting to give meaning to their religious experiences and taught them how to talk religion. The chapter shows that religious experiences and meanings given to faith by urban working-class women were full of nuances. Lived religion might have brought about obedience to authorities, as the labour movement assumed, but it could also encourage resistance.
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Kuha, Miia. "Extended Families as Communities of Religious Experience in Late Seventeenth-Century Eastern Finland." In Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience, 139–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92140-8_6.
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AbstractThis chapter offers an interpretation of extended families as communities of experience in a rural area close to the eastern border of the Swedish realm. Through a case study of lower court records, Kuha examines the social and religious life in a 17th-century farm culminating in the crisis of an extended family. The chapter explores how practices of lived religion shaped the relationship of the community and the individual, and how experiences were negotiated within families and local communities. The analysis highlights the importance of protecting the boundaries of the household as well as the meaning of religious practices in creating cohesion within the community.
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Stanier, Jessica, and Nicole Miglio. "Painful Experience and Constitution of the Intersubjective Self: A Critical-Phenomenological Analysis." In The International Library of Bioethics, 101–14. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65613-3_8.
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AbstractIn this paper, we discuss how phenomenology might cogently express the way painful experiences are layered with complex intersubjective meaning. In particular, we propose a critical conception of pain as an intricate multi-levelled phenomenon, deeply ingrained in the constitution of one’s sense of bodily self and emerging from a web of intercorporeal, social, cultural, and political relations. In the first section, we review and critique some conceptual accounts of pain. Then, we explore how pain is involved in complex ways with modalities of pleasure and displeasure, enacted personal meaning, and contexts of empathy or shame. We aim to show why a phenomenology of pain must acknowledge the richness and diversity of peculiar painful experiences. The second section then weaves these critical insights into Husserlian phenomenology of embodiment, sensation, and localisation. We introduce the distinction between Body-Object and Lived-Body to show how pain presents intersubjectively (e.g. from a patient to a clinician). Furthermore, we stress that, while pain seems to take a marginal position in Husserl’s whole corpus, its role is central in the transcendental constitution of the Lived-Body, interacting with the personal, interpersonal, and intersubjective levels of experiential constitution. Taking a critical-phenomenological perspective, we then concretely explore how some people may experience structural conditions which may make their experiences more or less painful.
Conference papers on the topic "User. lived experience. meaning"
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Aguayo, Claudio. "Informing immersive learning design research and practice from the epistemology of the Santiago School of Cognition." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.70.
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The Santiago School of Cognition postulates that the process of intelligent cognition in any living system is a result of its ongoing process of adaptation to its medium. In other words, the very process of life in living systems is a process of cognition. It also establishes that human experience and cognition is embodied and enacted with the environment, through a continuous process of active perception and sense-making of the world. Coming from systems biology and founded on the concept of autopoiesis, literally meaning self-making, defining living systems as those that can reproduce and self-maintain themselves by creating their own parts, the Santiago school essentially offers an alternative epistemology for the understanding of human experience phenomena with digital tools and environments. It also provides a framework for the creation, design, development, implementation and use of digital affordances (possibilities offered by digital technology) in education and beyond. Informing immersive learning design research and practice from the epistemology of the Santiago school also helps exploring and navigating digital innovation and the emergence of new technologies and modes of user experience design and practice. Under the premise that the nature of the world we live in is complex, interconnected, unpredictable and ever-changing, and that human experience is subjective, ecosomaesthetic, symbolic and felt with the world, traditional western design concepts such as ‘one solution fits all’ or even the notion of ‘user experience (UX) design’ become problematic. Autopoiesis, cognition and enaction at the basis of human lived experience are some of the fundamental concepts and principles coming from the epistemology of the Santiago school that can inform and guide user-centred design and creative making practice in real and virtual worlds. Embedding properties found in living systems within creative solutions, or designing for users ‘to become with the world’ in a circular enactment within digitally immersive environments are only examples of where practice-led research and creative making can go. Here, the fundamental concepts and building blocks of the Santiago school are presented and reviewed in relation to their ability to inform the understanding of the nature of human experience in real and immersive worlds, and how we ought to design for it. Examples from research and practical work will help to portray how the epistemology of the Santiago school can become of interest and of real value to artistic and design practice and inquiry. Finally, the philosophical rationale guiding the inclusion of principles and concepts coming from the Santiago school in digital learning design, creative design and artistic practice not only invites us to reconsider and re-conceptualise the role of learners and of digital technology systems and tools in educational practice, but also to rethink the nature of learning and of human experience within creative practice.
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Stephens, Sonia, and Amanda Altamirano. "Understanding User Expertise Through Lived Experience." In SIGDOC '21: The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3472714.3473660.
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Strickfaden, Megan, Adolfo Ruiz, and Joyce Thomas. "(Re)storying Empathy in Design Thinking." In 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023). AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002971.
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Storytelling can be associated with temporality, memory, emotion, embodied ways of individually experiencing life, and social ways of collectively experiencing the world. Storytelling is also a kind of re-storying of human experience that has the potential to drive design solutions in very significant directions. We believe that storytelling has the potential to be a cornerstone towards breaking down assumptions about others and revealing beliefs and values about the people that designers call their users or audiences; and as such, storytelling can be significant to human-centred design processes and towards building empathy in design thinking. This paper highlights some of the central ideas around storytelling, re-storying and empathy from the fields of design studies, contemporary literature, psychology, and philosophy. This includes explorations into how designers invest time into storytelling and how this can lead towards deepening empathy and understanding of others’ circumstances. Our core assumption is that storytelling and re-storying are key ways to connect one person with another and to bring together groups of people through sharing and exploring details about individual experiences including intimate and emotional qualities of the human condition. Moving from our highlighted core concepts we put these to work through three projects created by authors and presented as case studies to better understand temporality, memory, emotion and embodiment, and to explore how empathy can be enacted. The three case studies are: a self-knowing activity called Embodied Maps; an activity that has been made into a short film called Evolving Lines; and an ethnographic film created to explore low vision and the urban environment called Light in the Borderlands. Each of these case studies are examples of different types of re-storying, woven together to shed light on and facilitate deep reflection and meaningful conversations about oneself and among people who carry distinct cultural knowledge and disparate lived experiences. Storytelling and re-storying in each of these case studies are developed through sustained and respectful dialogue over hours, weeks, and months as part of design inquiries leading to and facilitating meaning-making processes. This paper promises to illuminate how storytelling and re-storying can be used as a means to being a more empathic design thinker and move towards innovative design solutions that are more suitable, functional and, ultimately, valuable to people.
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Sagar, Priyank, Ravi Mahamuni, Vasundhara Agrawal, Shirish Darak, Vijaya Jori, and Sandeep Athavale. "Exploring Storytelling Approach with Service Design to Create Empathetic Experiences for Adolescents Living with HIV: A Case Study." In ServDes.2023 Entanglements & Flows Conference: Service Encounters and Meanings Proceedings, 11-14th July 2023, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Linköping University Electronic Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp203013.
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In India, a significant number of children live with HIV. Due to a lack of awareness and social stigma, they do not make timely and responsible life decisions around intimacy and HIV status disclosure. In this paper, we share our experience of collaborating with Prayas Health Group (PHG), a prominent Non-Government Organization in Maharashtra (India) that is dedicated to enriching the lives of HIV patients. We used Service Design methods to create a solution that disseminates essential information and enables Adolescents Living with HIV (ALHIV) to make informed life decisions. The solution is an interactive story media where adolescents make decisions around in-design encounters that parallel with possible real-life encounters. As a result, they learn more about the subject and its implications, leading to improved real-life decision-making. This paper demonstrates the orchestration of human and technology touchpoints through multiple dynamic and choice-based scenarios.
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Tavares, Tatiana. "Paradoxical saints: Polyvocality in an interactive AR digital narrative." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.81.
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This artistic, practice-led PhD thesis is concerned with the potentials of polyvocality and interactive digital narrative. The practical project, Saints of Paradox, is constructed as a printed picture book that can be experienced through an Augmented Reality [AR] platform. The fictional story entails a woman who mourns the disappearance of her lover in the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état and lives for 40 years in a room of accumulated memories. IIn each illustration, the user can select three buttons on the tablet device that activates a different version of the story. Three narrators (saints) present interconnected but diverging interpretations of the events shaped by their distinct theological positions. The respective values of compassion, orthodoxy, and pragmatic realism distort details of imagery, sound, movement, and meaning. AR animated vignettes, each backed by a uniquely composed cinematic soundscape, allow characters to populate the luxuriously illustrated world. Candles flicker and burn, snakes curl through breathing flowerbeds, and rooms furnished with the contents of accumulated memories pulsate with mystery. The scanned image reviews an interactive parallax that produces a sense of three-dimensional space, functioning as a technical and conceptual component. Theoretically, the story navigates relationships between the real and the imagined and refers to magical real binary modes of textual representation (Flores, 1955, Champi, 1980; Slemon, 1988, 1995; Spindler, 1993; Zamora and Faris; 1995; Bowers, 2004). Here, meaning negotiates an unreliable, sometimes paradoxical pathway between rational and irrational accounting and polyvocal narration. The dynamics between the book and the AR environments produce a sense of mixed reality (actual and virtual). The narrative experience resides primarily in an unstable virtual world, and the printed book functions as an enigmatic unoccupied vessel. Because of this, we encounter a sense of ontological reversal where the ‘virtual’ answers the ambiguities presented by the ‘real’ (the book). In the work, religious syncretism operates as a reference to Brazilian culture and an artistic device used to communicate a negotiation of different voices and points of view. The strange and somehow congruous forms of European, African, and indigenous influences merge to form the photomontage world of the novel. Fragments of imagery may be considered semiotic markers of cultural and ideological miscegenation and assembled into an ambiguous ‘new real’ state of being that suggests syncretic completeness. Methodologically, the project emanates from a post-positivist, artistic research paradigm (Klein, 2010). It is supported by a heuristic approach (Douglass and Moustakas, 1985) to the discovery and refinement of ideas through indwelling and explicitness. Thus, the research draws upon tacit and explicit knowledge in developing a fictional narrative, structure, and stylistic treatments. A series of research methods were employed to assess the communicative potential of the work. Collaboration with other practitioners enabled high expertise levels and provided an informed platform of exchange and idea progression.
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Huang, Yuzhun, Miaodi Hu, and Jun Zhang. "User Emotional Experience Assessment Method of Product's Intentional Sound." In 8th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies. AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002750.
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Product sound plays an important role in the multi-sensory user experience of home appliances. The sound effects that are given meaning by designers (intentional sounds) in home appliances have three contributions to the user experience: semantic conformity to make a satisfactory contribution to the overall product experience; brand impression; and bringing pleasantness and emotional experience. Based on the three aspects of the impact of intentional sounds on product experience, combined with the Semantic Differential method in the field of Kansei engineering and the Hevner adjective table commonly used in music sentiment analysis, this research will design a set of intentional sound evaluation methods from the perspective of user experience.
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Chou, Pao-Nan, and Wei-Fan Chen. "Name-display Feature for Self-disclosure in an Instant Messenger Program: A Qualitative Study in Taiwan." In InSITE 2009: Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3302.
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In Taiwan, instant messenger usage has become the third most frequently engaged online activity following web cyberspace’s web surfing and e-mail. Among different kinds of instant messengers, Windows Live Messenger (WLM) is the most popular software program. The purpose of this study is to explore users’ name-display behaviors on WLM from a self-disclosure perspective. The study employs phenomenological methodology to elicit lived experiences of using the name-display feature in the WLM. Twelve subjects, 3 women and 9 men, participated in this study. From 12 verbatim transcripts, after identifying significant statements, clustering the formulated meanings resulted in 9 themes. The key findings are: (1) Self-disclosure behavior exists in the name-display feature in the instant messenger; (2) Participants revealed disclosure topics to achieve self-expression purpose; (3) Social support occurred when participants identified other online users’ nicknames; (4) Participants revealed their nicknames for social validation; (5) Self-disclosures would not reveal messages that provoke threats; (6) In order to create a certain desired impression, participants would manipulate the disclosure messages; and (7) Silent self-disclosure with verbal forms is participants’ preference in cyberspace.
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Shaw, Cara, and Farnaz Nickpour. "Illuminating Narratives of Young Wheelchair Users: Lived Experience Insights for Framing Child-Centred Inclusive Mobility Design." In AHFE 2023 Hawaii Edition. AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004285.
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Lived experiences and individual interpretations of reality can be effectively communicated through narratives. As such, capturing and understanding narratives can be considered of critical importance in human-centred design, as they form the essence and perspective a design is built upon and are thus essentially embedded into the designed outcome. The role of narratives in design becomes particularly critical when designing with or for end-users whose narratives tend to differ from mainstream dominant societal or disciplinary narratives due to differences in lived experiences. In order to empower such communities and ensure designed entities can be meaningful and desirable as well as usable for them, it is important to proactively uncover, interrogate and incorporate a diversity and plurality of end-user narratives into the design process. This study demonstrates how this could be applied in the field of Inclusive Paediatric Mobility (IPM) Design, by setting out to uncover and interrogate the narratives of nine young wheelchair users aged 4-18 years. In-depth narrative interviews are conducted and analysed to unveil five high-level narrative themes including: Independence, Freedom and Choice Beyond Mobility; Social Inclusion and Support Networks; Identity, Customisation and Self-Expression; Accessibility and Adaptations; and Resilience and Determination. An interpretive phenomenological analysis is then conducted to identify archetypal dominant, counter and alternative narratives that exist around each theme. The study elucidates the complexity, duality and dynamicity of end-user narratives and highlights how wheelchairs can act as a vessel for narratives which transcend the primary concept of mobility, encompassing a deeper sense of identity and selfhood, enriched with values, feelings, and opinions related to various areas of life. As well as offering insights into the lived experiences of young wheelchair users, the narratives identified through this study could be adopted in practice by inclusive mobility designers, stakeholders and policymakers to inform sense-making and opportunity framing processes, to ultimately create more meaningful child-centred healthtech solutions and empower young wheelchair users.
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Tomassoni, Rosella, Melissa Benvenuto, and Monica Alina Lungu. "PSYCHODYNAMIC ASPECTS OF THE FAIRYTALE THE LITTLE PRINCE BY ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY." In 9th SWS International Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES - ISCSS 2022. SGEM WORLD SCIENCE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35603/sws.iscss.2022/s06.059.
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The present work aims to address the literary genre of fairy tales on the basis of their psychologicaland educational value aimed at satisfying the psychological-emotional and cognitive-ethical aspects. The objectives will be to present the conscious and unconscious aspects of the characters and to reveal the creative abilities that fairy tales contain: what are the main characteristics and their psychological value. The fairy tale represents an important point both in the field of imagination and creativity and you know in the didactic one. It is important to give the younger generations the opportunity to develop creative thinking, to test themselves with different types of intelligence, to get dirty with the experience of the world in which one lives, to get excited, to be empathetic. The method used will be the psychological analysis of the characters; in particular we will focus on the reading and analysis of the fairy tale "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint- Exupery, a sublime tale, full of meanings, which through its images has fascinated entire generations and which aims to transmit the true meaning of life: contact with the other. The psychodynamic aspects of the fairy tale will be externalized through the possibility of knowing oneself thus allowing a constant development of the recipient's creativity and imagination. In conclusion, fairy tales represent the key for the child to enter the world of fantasy, creativity and objective reality, without getting confused with his affective-emotional balance and with his future possibilities of socialization and logical understanding.
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Ichim, Mariana. "COMPUTER-ENHANCED LEARNING OF ROTOR SPINNING." In eLSE 2020. University Publishing House, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-20-212.
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Over the last decades, computers have significantly impacted every aspect of our personal and professional lives and have proven to be vital in many fields of activity, including in education. The growth of smartphone, tablet, and laptop ownership and affordance has increased the interest to integrate computer technology in teaching and learning strategies. Digital education is becoming more and more popular. New interactive digital applications in combination with traditional in-class teaching and learning approaches can notably enhance the learning experience. Digital tools used in or outside the classroom, before or after lecture, online or off-line change completely the way students learn. Their efficient use in the teaching process captures students' attention, facilitates dynamic interaction, increases students' motivation and interest in the subject area, and improves the level of subject understanding and learning efficiency. The computer-enhanced teaching and learning allow students to construct their own knowledge and meaning based on their experiences so that students are active agents in the knowledge acquisition process. In this paper a web-based educational module designed for rotor spinning teaching and learning is presented. The web-based learning module contains a diverse range of multimedia tools such as text, schematic drawing of rotor spinning machine, images, animation, videos, and assessment tests with the aim to provide the content in various forms that can be seen, heard or read, thus making the study material easy to understand by a wider range of students with different learning styles. The learning module is meant to supplement the traditional face-to-face instruction.
Reports on the topic "User. lived experience. meaning"
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Swannack, Robyn, Alys Young, and Claudine Storbeck. A scoping review of deaf sign language users’ perceptions and experiences of well-being in South Africa. INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2022.11.0082.
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Background: This scoping review concerns deaf adult sign language users from any country (e.g. users of South African Sign Language (SASL), British Sign Language (BSL), American Sign Language (ASL) and so forth). It concerns well-being understood to include subjective well-being and following the WHO’s (2001) definition of well-being as “mental health as a state of well-being in which every individual realises his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.” Well-being has three components (Steptoe, Deaton, and Stone, 2015; Stewart-Brown, Tennant, Tennant, Platt, Parkinson and Weich, 2009): (i) Live evaluation, also referred to life satisfaction, which concerns an individual’s evaluation of their life and their satisfaction with its quality and how good they feel about it; (ii) hedonic well-being which refers to everyday feelings or moods and focuses on affective components (feeling happy); (iii) eudaimonic well-being, which emphasises action, agency and self-actualisation (e.g. sense of control, personal growth, feelings of purpose and belonging) that includes judgments about the meaning of one’s life. Well-being is not defined as the absence of mental illness but rather as a positive state of flourishing that encompasses these three components. The review is not concerned with evidence concerning mental illness or psychiatric conditions amongst deaf signers. A specific concern is deaf sign language users’ perceptions and experiences of well-being.
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Chaimite, Egidio, Salvador Forquilha, and Alex Shankland. Who Can We Count On? Authority, Empowerment and Accountability in Mozambique. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ids.2021.019.
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In this paper, we explore the use of a governance diaries methodology to investigate poor households’ interactions with authority in fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings in Mozambique. The research questioned the meanings of empowerment and accountability from the point of view of poor and marginalised people, with the aim of understanding what both mean for them, and how that changes over time, based on their experiences with governance. The study also sought to record how poor and marginalised households view the multiple institutions that govern their lives; providing basic public goods and services, including health and security; and, in return, raise revenues to fund these services. The findings show that, even if the perceptions and, with them, the concepts of empowerment and accountability that emerged do not differ significantly from those identified in the literature, in terms of action and mobilisation there are distinctions. In our research sites we found that people rarely mobilise, even faced with prevalent injustices and poor basic service provision. Many claim to be ‘unable’ to influence or force ‘authorities’ to respond to their concerns and demands.
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Dukelow, Fiona, Joe Whelan, and Margaret Scanlon. In transit? Documenting the lived experiences of welfare, working and caring for one-parent families claiming Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment. Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century, University College Cork, May 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/10468/14485.
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This research, conducted in conjunction with One Family, set out to document the lived experiences of Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment (JST) recipients and to explore how JST is working ‘on the ground’. Because JST is a relatively new payment in the Irish social welfare system, little is known about how it is experienced by recipients. Furthermore, because people living in single parent households are consistently over-represented in poverty statistics across all metrics (at risk of poverty, enforced deprivation and consistent poverty), how caregivers in one-parent households experience a policy that is designed with such households in mind represents important work. The research was qualitative in nature and the original data presented in the report were collected via one focus group coupled with a series of ten interviews. A substantial review of the literature was also undertaken, and this was used to frame the research. Available statistics, along with statistics obtained via parliamentary questions, are also used to inform the research. The core aims for this research were as follows: Develop an in-depth understanding of the lived experiences of the recipients of JST; Develop an understanding of how JST policy is working ‘on the ground’; Document the challenges and benefits associated with the payment; Develop a claimant-based user guide as a resource for new entrants to the payment scheme; Generate research data of relevance to One Family and related support and advocacy groups in their work with one parent families and their policy work in terms of the future direction of JST.
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Isaacs, Robert. A Lifelong Journey in Aboriginal Affairs and Community: Nulungu Reconciliation Lecture 2021. Edited by Melissa Marshall, Gillian Kennedy, Anna Dwyer, Kathryn Thorburn, and Sandra Wooltorton. Nulungu Research Institute, The University of Notre Dame Australia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32613/ni/2021.6.
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In this 2021 Nulungu Reconciliation lecture, Dr Robert Isaacs AM OAM will explore the meaning of reconciliation and the lessons of his personal journey in two worlds. As part of the Stolen Generation, and born at the dawn of the formal Aboriginal Rights Movement, this lecture outlines the changing social attitudes through the eyes of the lived experience and the evolving national policy framework that has sought to manage, then heal, the wounds that divided a nation. Aspirations of self-determination, assimilation and reconciliation are investigated to unpack the intent versus the outcome, and why the deep challenges not only still exist, but in some locations the divide is growing. The Kimberley is an Aboriginal rights location of global relevance with Noonkanbah at the beating heart. The Kimberley now has 93 percent of the land determined through Native Title yet the Kimberley is home to extreme disadvantage, abuse and hopelessness. Our government agencies are working “nine-to-five” but our youth, by their own declaration, are committing suicide out of official government hours. The theme of the Kimberley underpins this lecture. This is the journey of a man that was of two worlds but now walks with the story of five - the child of the Bibilmum Noongar language group and the boy that was stolen. The man that became a policy leader and the father of a Yawuru-Bibilmum-Noongar family and the proud great-grandson that finally saw the recognition of the courageous act of saving fifty shipwrecked survivors in 1876.