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Table 1

Theoretical concepts and their synergy applied to care work

Temporal orientation in care practitioners’ agency	Past How the past influences on agency of care practitioner?	Present How care practitioner encounters the present situations with the clients and technologies?	Future How care practitioner sees the future of care?
Human agency–theory Temporal orientations manifesting in care	Iteration manifesting how tacit or routinized schemas developed through past interactions are applied, such as working according to ethical premises of care	Practical evaluation manifesting how concrete situations are solved deliberating between situational demands and broader view, such as how the future of care is seen	Projective shaping and giving direction to future possibilities, such as what care practitioners think technological development will lead to in care
Technology-in-practice Temporalities in technology use in relation to care work	Inertia type of enactment, with little interest to integrate technology in care work, preferring to retain their old way of caring	Application type of enactment to refine their existing ways of caring	Change type of enactment to alter their existing ways of caring and properties of technological artefact into new future way of doing

Source(s): Authors’ own work