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Anthropologist Among Engineers: an Autoethnography of an Interdisciplinary Research Project and Its Potential for Bridging Disciplinary Divides

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This paper aims to present an autoethnography of my experiences and reflections on an interdisciplinary collaborative research project in which I participated. It also serves as a post-publication development, exploring new approaches to facilitate communication among researchers from different academic disciplines. The study also demonstrates that autoethnography can serve as a tool for interdisciplinary communication in an ongoing project by recording and transcribing project meetings and interviews. This methodology allows for the reflective interpretation of statements and meetings, thereby shaping intersubjectivity through these interpretive processes. Such an intervention presents an alternative approach to bridge the gap between the humanities and engineering.

Source: PSYCHOLOGIA

DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.d-24-00023

Author: Seiji NAKAO

Institution: Kyoto University

Language: English

Topic: Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration

Subfield: Information Systems and Management

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

Award: G2861301929