The Organizaion of Embodied Interaction Dependent on Activities in the Field: "Modifiaction" in Dental Practices

Abstract

In this paper, we describe how the participants organize the "modification" of body movement in dental interaction. Unlike "repair" in conversation, modification in embodied interaction is organized owing to whether each participant has three kinds of competence, i.e., physical competence, cognitive competence, and institutional competence. Four excerpts from dental interactions are analyzed from the viewpoint of who initiates and who performs the modification.