Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking

This paper analyses paramedic emergency interaction as multi-modal multi-activity. Based on a corpus of video-recordings of emergency drills performed by professional paramedics during advanced training, the focus is on paramedics' participation in multiple joint projects which become simultaneously relevant. Simultaneity and fast succession of multi-activity does not only characterise work on the team level, but also the work profile of the individual paramedic. Participants have to coordinate their own participation in more than one joint project intra-personally. In the data studied, three.

Example 1: Participants' multimodal orientations in negotiating a return to work on the laptop.

Multiactivity in Social Interaction; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Part 1. Introduction; Towards multiactivity as a social and interactional phenomenon; An overview ; Cognitive perspectives: Individual multitasking ; From multitasking to multiactivity: Not just cognition but also sociality ; Sociological perspectives of multitasking ; Applied issues: Normative and prescriptive visions ; Transition: Rethinking multitasking as multiactivity ; Situated practices in real time: Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.

Novel issues in the study of interactional multiactivity Existing EMCA literature and contributions of this book ; Towards an emic view of multiactivity ; The organisation of multiactivity: Simultaneity, sequentiality, seriality, and the temporal ordering; Practices for organising multiactivity ; Conclusions ; References ; The temporal orders of multiactivity: Operating and demonstrating in the surgical theatre; Introduction ; Data ; Temporal dimensions of multiactivity ; Time in interaction ; Multiple related and interfering temporalities ; Three temporal orders ; Parallel order.

Embedded orders: Integrated and hierarchised actions Micro…