Daniel López Gómez

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | UOC · Internet Interdisciplinary Institute - IN3

This paper explores the variety of socio-material arrangements that enable older people to continue living independently. Drawing on a collection of ethnographic observations and interviews with telecare users I conducted at their homes in 2004 and 2008, I will analyse in detail how the process of adopting the service makes visible and puts to the...

Telecare technologies have become one of the most widespread services devised as a solution to the increasing needs of long-term care, as well as a tool for the promotion of older people’s independent living. Besides other institutional factors, their current market success might very well stem from the fact of having placed at the very core of the...

This article reports on ethnographic research into the practical and ethical consequences of the implementation and use of telecare devices for older people living at home in Spain and the United Kingdom. Telecare services are said to allow the maintenance of their users’ autonomy through connectedness, relieving the isolation from which many older...

Planning for aging populations has been a growing concern for policy makers across the globe. Integral to strategies for promoting healthy aging are initiatives for ‘aging in place’, linked to services and care that allow older people to remain in their homes and communities. Technological innovations—and especially the development of digital techn...

Based on preliminary insights from the analyses of data, gathered during the CANDID project consultations, this document presents an overview for self-reflection and the fostering of exchange of knowledge between experts in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT. The document provides initial an...

This contribution discusses two types of autonomy in ICT for older persons: autonomy in ICT for older persons as derived from the legal notions of privacy and data protection; and autonomy in ICT for older persons as an achievement on account of by care-in-practice in long-term care. Learning from these modes of enacting autonomy is important in or...

The practice of developing and creating Free Software has been the centre of attention for studies related to economics, knowledge production, laws and the intellectual property framework. However, the practice that constitutes the initiative of Free Software also means a call to rethink current forms of political action and the in-depth meaning of...

This paper is an introduction to the monograph titled Diasporas and Transitions in the Actor-Network Theory. Drawing a parallel with ethnomethodology, its pages present the main features of this theory, a way to figure out its origins and a description of its present. The text ends with a brief look at the state of art of actor-network theory in Sp...

Este texto es una presentacion del monografico Diasporas y transiciones en la teoria del actor-red. Sus paginas presentan las principales caracteristicas de esta teoria, una manera de entender sus origenes y una descripcion de su presente estableciendo un paralelismo con la etnometodologia. El texto finaliza con una valoracion del estado de la teor...

Este texto es una presentación del monográfico Diásporas y transiciones en la teoría del actor-red. Sus páginas presentan las principales características de esta teoría, una manera de entender sus orígenes y una descripción de su presente estableciendo un paralelismo con la etnometodología. El texto finaliza con una valoración del estado de la teor...

In what way is »care« a matter of »tinkering«? Rather than presenting care as a (preferably »warm«) relation between human beings, the various contributions to the volume give the material world (usually cast as »cold«) a prominent place in their analysis. Thus, this book does not continue to oppose care and technology, but contributes to rethinkin...

The practice of developing and creating Free Software has been the centre of attention for studies related to economics, knowledge production, laws and the intellectual property framework. However, the practice that constitutes the initiative of Free Software also means a call to rethink current forms of political action and the in-depth meaning of...

The practice of developing and creating Free Software has been the centre of attention for studies related to economics, knowledge production, laws and the intellectual property framework. However, the practice that constitutes the initiative of Free Software also means a call to rethink current forms of political action and the in-depth meaning of...

Esta tesis es un estudio etnográfico sobre un servicio de teleasistencia domiciliaria en el que se analiza cómo se organiza el cuidado a distancia e inmediato ante cualquier eventualidad, cómo se corporeiza y práctica la autonomía a través del uso de este servicio, y cómo el hogar y su forma de habitarlo se transforma con el uso de la teleasistenci...

Home has become a newly fostered place for care giving in what might be called an aging in place paradigm. As a result, thinking about how the homes spatialities are configured and how they might transform caring has become an important issue for the social sciences. This article is a contribution to this line of thought and looks at being-at-home...

In recent years care policies have taken an important turn towards "autonomy promotion" in preference to "dependency assistance". This has generated an important debate around the notions of autonomy and dependence in the social sciences. The present paper is a contribution to this debate through the brief analysis of a home telecare service instal...

En los últimos años las políticas de cuidado han dado un giro importante hacia la "promoción de la autonomía" frente a la "asistencia a la dependencia". Esto ha generado un importante debate entorno a las nociones de autonomía y dependencia en las ciencias sociales. El presente texto es una contribución a este debate a través del breve análisis de...

Growing attention is being paid to the increasing incidence of expert and lay citizen encounters in the processes of technological implementation. This poses the problem of the nature of participation, now a quite common topic in the field of science and technology studies. We offer firstly a brief review of the main issues regarding participation...

La teoría del actor-red ha popularizado la noción de “traducción” como herramienta de inteligibilidad de las conexiones que se establecen entre dispositivos tecnológicos y seres humanos. No obstante, el concepto se enfrenta a dos graves problemas. En primer lugar, no resuelve la cuestión de cómo es posible que diversas traducciones mantengan cierta...

In this paper we explore from a topological perspective how immediate care is enacted in a home telecare service and critically discuss how immediacy is defined. One approach is to conceive immediate care delivering as dependant on how disciplined the home telecare service inscriptions are and therefore on how uneventful and smooth the assistance i...

For some considerable time now, the practice of developing and creating Free Software has been the centre of attention for studies related to economics, knowledge production, law and the legal and intellectual property framework. However, the practice that constitutes this initiative also means a call to rethink current forms of political action an...

Resumen Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904) es considerado uno de los padres de la psicología social por su contribución al estudio de la sugestión social, la propagación y la imitación como fenómenos esencialmente interpsicológicos. El propósito de este trabajo es mostrar algunas de las formas en las que el pensamiento de Tarde ha sido recuperado y analizar...

En este artículo explicaremos, a partir de un trabajo etnográfico realizado en el Servicio de Teleasistencia de la Cruz Roja de Cataluña, cómo la teoría del actor-red nos permite analizar una de las características clave de este servicio: la atención inmediata y constante. Frente a los espacios de encierro propios de las instituciones tradicionales...

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La pregunta que quiero plantear y abordar en este texto gira entorno a la relación entre tecnologías sonoras y política. ¿En qué sentido podemos calificar a las tecnologías sonoras como tecnologías políticas? Para ello no voy a ofrecer una respuesta cerrada sino una serie de conceptos o herramientas con las que hacer inteligible esta relación de un...

El proyecto “Analisis de la Teleasistencia Domiciliaria: una aproximacion al poder y sus espacialidades” es fruto de un estudio etnografico realizado en el Servicio de Teleasistencia de la Cruz Roja de Catalunya en el marco de un proyecto del Departamento de Psicologia de la Salud y Psicologia Social (2003-2004). El proposito de este trabajo de inv...

El proyecto “Análisis de la Teleasistencia Domiciliaria: una aproximación al poder y sus espacialidades” es fruto de un estudio etnográfico realizado en el Servicio de Teleasistencia de la Cruz Roja de Catalunya en el marco de un proyecto del Departamento de Psicología de la Salud y Psicología Social (2003-2004). El propósito de este trabajo de inv...

Los procesos de desinstitucionalización creciente en nuestras sociedades están asociados a la implementación de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Como consecuencia de ello están surgiendo nuevas formaciones sociales que exigen un replanteamiento de conceptos tan arraigados como institución o poder. A través de la Teleasistencia D...

This work describes, from a User-Centred Design (UCD) perspective, the methodology and the results of a research that has been trying to identify the most appropriate scenarios for the implementation of e-Health services based on electrocardiography (ECG) and echocardiography (ECHO) transmission. By means of the scenario analysis technique we have...

Resumen En este trabajo se describe, desde la perspectiva de diseño centrado en el usuario (DCU), la metodología y resultados de una investigación que ha tratado de identificar los escenarios idóneos para la implementación de servicios de e-Salud que utilicen transmisión de ECOs y ECGs. Mediante la metodología de análisis de escenarios se ha procur...

The production of reliability in highly modernized environments. Ethnographic outlines on a home telecare service La teoría del actor-red ha popularizado la noción de "traducción" como herramienta de inteligibilidad de las conexiones que se establecen entre dispositivos tecnológicos y seres humanos. No obstante, el concepto se enfrenta a dos graves...