Encounters with Chuck: Man with a Video Camera
Encounters with Chuck: Man with a Video Camera

Summary/Abstract: We first met Chuck at the 2nd International Congress of Activity Theory (ISCRAT) conference in Lahti, Finland, in May 1990. It was an unusual meeting of Russian, European and North American scholars, with a strong contingent of ethnomethodologists and conversation analysts interested in workplace studies and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). At that time (1989–1991), Chuck was heavily involved in the Xerox Parc airport study run by Lucy Suchman (Goodwin, C., Goodwin, M.H. 1996) and he presented a paper intriguingly entitled ‘Hunting the snark: Interaction, technology and collaborative work on a scientific research vessel.’ Shortly afterwards, we joined Chuck and Candy in Helsinki for a two-week long, closed workshop on video and talk-in-interaction organised by Auli Hakulinen.

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