Materiality in information environments: Objects, spaces, and bodies in three outpatient hemodialysis facilities

• Published in: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 70; no. 12; pp. 1324 - 1339
• Main Authors: Veinot, Tiffany C, Pierce, Casey S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.12.2019
• Subjects: End users; Ethnography; Furniture; Hemodialysis; Information dissemination; Information seeking behavior; Outpatient care facilities; Patients; Pragmatics; Semantics; Semiotics; Stress; Syntax semantics relationship; Thermostats

The materiality of information environments, and its role in information behavior, has received little attention. We present an ethnographic study involving 156 hours of observation and 28 patient interviews in outpatient hemodialysis facilities. Using an extended “Semiotic Framework for Information...