@article{6704fc613e44489cb13a06f7c4ba1d54,
title = "The touch pad body: A generative transcultural digital device interrupting received ideas and practices in aboriginal health",
abstract = "Yol{\ng}u Aboriginal understandings of the body, health, life and sickness, and roles their ancestral epistemologies and knowledge practices play in making agreement have seldom been taken seriously in the biomedical world. In this paper, we describe how insights developed in three different cross-cultural collaborative transdisciplinary research projects led to the design of a digital device aimed at intervening in communicative practices around body, health, life and sickness, interrupting the received practices and assumptions on both sides of the practitioner-client divide. The interrupting device slows down and opens up communication practices potentially leading to mutual understanding, collective agreement making, and bottom-up changes in remote Aboriginal health policy and practice.",
keywords = "Aboriginal, Digital, Health communication, Health literacy, Transdisciplinary",
author = "Michael Christie and Helen Verran",
note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge the many Yol{\ng}u knowledge authorities who have helped us understand our work over many years. Sharing the True Stories was funded by the CRC for Aboriginal Health. Healthy Breathing and Heart was funded by the Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Austin Hospital. The East Arnhem Health Literacy project was funded by the Australian Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. Betty Marr{\ng}anyin, and Anne Lowell were key researchers in STTS. Yi{\ng}iya Guyula, Dha{\ng}gal Gurruwiwi, Janice Munhdhu, Waymamba Gaykama{\ng}u, and Joanne Gar{\ng}gulkpuy were consultants on the HBH project working with John Greatorex and Christian Clark. Juli Cathcart and Trevor van Weeren coordinated many workers on the EARACHE project and designed the proof of concept for the Touch Pad Body. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2014",
month = jun,
doi = "10.3390/soc4020256",
language = "English",
volume = "4",
pages = "256--264",
journal = "Societies",
issn = "2075-4698",
publisher = "MDPIAG",
number = "2",
}