Social Appropriateness Tree Structures

Abstract

As another way of approaching the phenomenon of social appropriateness, the factors discussed in the explanations of the FASA model, their criteria, and the observables/indicators of social appropriateness prominently associated with them can be graphically arranged into tree graphs to illustrate their relations among themselves.

As another way of approaching the phenomenon of social appropriateness, the factors discussed in the explanations of the FASA model, their criteria, and the observables/indicators of social appropriateness prominently associated with them can be graphically arranged into tree graphs to illustrate their relations among themselves.

This allows rapid access to a preliminary understanding of which factors and factor criteria of social appropriateness should be considered when building systems whose design is technically limited by only being able to detect certain observables with sensors.

For example: if you want to design a technical system that ‘only’ has the ability to recognize movement data, you can check for any relevant features in the indicator section of the tree structures below and decide which factors and factor criteria of social appropriateness might be relevant. This bottom-up approach can also be reversed to obtain a top-down approach:

If it is unclear which observables need to be technically detected in the design process of a sociosensitive and/or socioactive system, the factors and factor criteria of social appropriateness can be used to assess which observables might represent potential indicators of the social appropriateness relationships involved in the application.

The tree structures also graphically show how the factor criteria ‹time› and ‹intention› are associated with two different factors in each case – for ‹time›, the two factors «Situational Context» and «Type of Action, Conduct, Behaviour, or Task»; for ‹intention›, the two factors «Type of Action, Conduct, Behaviour, or Task» and «Relations between Interacting Agents». This illustrates the interconnections between the factor criteria and the factors and therefore between the factors themselves. The factors, factor criteria, and observables/indicators of social appropriateness are represented in Fig. 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 in tree structures, starting from a factor in each case.

Fig. 5.1

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«Type of Action, Conduct, Behaviour, or Task».

Fig. 5.2

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«Situational Context».

Fig. 5.3

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«Individual Specifics».

Fig. 5.4

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«Relations between Interacting Agents».

Fig. 5.5

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«Standards of Customary Practice».