Paul Luff

Paul Luff’s research draws on video-based ethnography to understand work practices with technologies in a range of settings. These studies include complex, often sensitive work environments including those in the health sector, the financial industries and in control rooms.

In most of his projects Paul collaborates with designers and developers of innovative technologies including novel video-mediated systems, augmented technologies and robotics. Paul has co-ordinated a number of interdisciplinary projects and received grants from the ESRC, EPSRC and the EU.

In these and other projects Paul has collaborated with a range of commercial and academic organisations including Hitachi, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Xerox, Pearson, ETH Zurich, Universities of Tsukuba, Saitama, Malmo, Aarhus, UCL, Sussex and Oxford.

His research focuses on the collaborative and social accomplishment of work practices. He is the co-author of Technology in Action (with Christian Heath) and Video in Qualitative Research (with Christian Heath and Jon Hindmarsh).

Publiations

• Visible Objects of Concern:: issues and challenges for workplace ethnographies in complex environments 01 July 2019
• Creating Interdependencies: Managing Incidents in Large Organizational Environments 01 January 2018
• Exchanging implements: the micro-materialities of multidisciplinary work in the operating theatre 01 February 2018
• Putting Things in Focus: Establishing Co-Orientation Through Video in Context 02 May 2013
• Hands on Hitchcock: Embodied Reference to a Moving Scene 07 May 2011
• The Naturalistic Experiment: Video and Organizational Interaction 26 December 2017
• Showing Objects:: holding and manipulating artefacts in video-mediated collaborative settings 16 January 2017
• Embedded Reference:: Translocating gestures in video-mediated interactions 24 October 2016
• Transcribing Embodied Action 01 January 2015
• Gesture and Institutional Interaction 01 January 2011