Beedholm Kirsten, Frederiksen Kirsten, Lomborg Kirsten
Aarhus University, Denmark
Aarhus University, Denmark.
Qual Health Res. 2016 Aug;26(10):1424-33. doi: 10.1177/1049732315586550. Epub 2015 May 18.
Assistive technologies are often considered to be passive tools implemented in targeted processes. Our previous study of the implementation of the robot bathtub in a Danish elder center suggested that purposeful rationality was not the only issue at stake. To further explore this, we conducted a constructivist secondary qualitative analysis. Data included interviews, participant observations, working documents, and media coverage. The analysis was carried out in two phases and revealed that the bathing of the older people was constructed as a problem that could be offensive to the users' integrity, damaging to their well-being, and physically strenuous for the staff. The older users and the nursing staff were constructed as problem carriers. We conclude that technological solutions are not merely neutral and beneficial solutions to existing problems, but are rather part of strategic games contributing to the construction of the very problems they seek to solve.
辅助技术通常被视为在特定流程中实施的被动工具。我们之前对丹麦一家老年中心引入机器人浴缸的研究表明，目的合理性并非唯一的关键问题。为了进一步探究这一点，我们进行了一次建构主义的二次定性分析。数据包括访谈、参与观察、工作文件和媒体报道。分析分两个阶段进行，结果显示，老年人的洗浴被建构为一个可能冒犯使用者尊严、损害其福祉且让工作人员体力消耗巨大的问题。老年使用者和护理人员被建构为问题承载者。我们得出结论，技术解决方案并非仅仅是对现有问题的中立且有益的解决办法，而是战略博弈的一部分，这些战略博弈促成了它们试图解决的问题的建构。
