Table 2

Engaged relationship with mobile phone in interaction between care professional and client

Client visit of H10Actions
(9:57- 17.23- episode 1)


E: My fingers won't obey that machine.
C: They won't obey that machine. I can show you in a minute.
R: They're made that way for young people.
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C: I'll continue writing that message in a minute, since it's going to be such a long message, but I’ll make you your meal first.
E sits at the kitchen table, C sits across the same table and taps at his mobile phone,
C glances at the client's mobile phone on the table.
C continues typing an answer on his mobile phone.


C taps at his phone in silence (50 seconds)
E moves the fork and cup on the table to make a sound

C gets up from the chair, puts the mobile phone into his pocket and opens the fridge door.

C heats up a dish of food and does some prep work for the meal, E takes her medicine, C taps at his mobile phone and tells E that he replied to her daughter, C takes the dish from the microwave and hands it to E (altogether 6 minutes)
(17.23 -19.30 – episode 2)

C: There are no new photos...
There's the video you were talking about. He's screaming down there in the well.
E: He’s watching it, when the water goes down the drain.
(Sound of splashing water)
C: It's good to have a rig like that so you can go swimming in it.
E: Good boy.
C: It was the ice cream truck, we watched it yesterday.
C: You've really taken a selfie like this.
E: Yeah. (Smiling)
C: That's the last picture where he's at the airport.
E: I don’t know if it was when he was about to go or when he was returning. He visited Rovaniemi. He's a kind of cuckoo head.
C sits down at the kitchen table, takes the client's smart phone from the kitchen table.
E scrapes a jar of margarine.
C shows E the screen of the mobile phone, where E's grandson is playing with water.
C and E watch the video together


C turns the mobile phone towards himself and flicks the video off.
C looks for a new video on the mobile phone.
E starts to eat

C turns the mobile phone horizontal and shows it to E, E looks at the photo on the mobile phone.
C shows the photo to E. 
E looks at the mobile phone.


C puts the mobile phone back on the table.

Source(s): Authors’ own work

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