{"id":1286,"date":"2024-10-02T12:24:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T11:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspireslearning.com\/dahl\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2024-10-03T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T08:56:57","slug":"what-does-a-technology-adoption-adaptation-advisor-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspireslearning.com\/dahl\/uncategorized\/what-does-a-technology-adoption-adaptation-advisor-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What does a Technology Adoption\/Adaptation Advisor do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We frequently run events to engage the Faculty community in exploring new technologies. The VR Club is an example. We do this to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Gain shared knowledge (for us and the participants) of how innovations may fit (or not) into people\u2019s study, work, and lives \u2013 how they might solve a problem, help to achieve a goal, make some activity easier, more enjoyable etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Inspire people to consider, or dream-up, entirely new goals, new activities, new practices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Understand, and plan for, how they might adopt\/adapt innovations into practice.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Find commonalities in how different people respond to technologies \u2013 for example, is there an innovation that fits in more than one discipline?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Help people to become more comfortable in trying, adopting, and adapting specific technologies, and technology in general.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Create a community in which new practices can spread more readily.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Guide our focus in exploring other emerging technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    People might come to an event having reflected on current practice and needs, and with a clear[ish] idea of what they want to achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Others may come more speculatively, and find that the engagement with technology helps them to rethink current practice and to formulate new goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Some people just come for fun, and are surprised at what they find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In all cases, we need to carefully support participants in building sufficient understanding, making decisions, and planning further action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We also need to be aware and comfortable with accepting that in many cases the engagement will not immediately lead to action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In facilitating people in these events, we need to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Prepare! Ensure that the space, the tech, the event, the experience, is designed and set up appropriately – high professional standards are really important.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Create events that will attract people not because they are about new tech but because something interesting, useful, exciting is offered through the tech.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Understand and empathise with individuals, recognising how they are feeling and thinking, so that we can create a personalised experience that is comfortable and rewarding.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Engage in a respectful and caring dialogue to get a sense of what their starting point is (capabilities, experiences, goals, styles, etc.) \u2013 and revise this understanding as the engagement proceeds. Avoid unconscious bias!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Help each participant to select from a range of ideas (e.g. uses of VR, apps, experiences) that might be relevant (work is done before the session to prepare a range of choices that might be of use).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Brief the participant on how the technology works, and what the experience might be like using it in their context.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. Give a carefully managed and realistic enough experience of the technology\/practice, so that they can build sufficient understanding and \u201cfeel for\u201d what it would be like to adopt it into practice, and how it might be useful.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    8. Ensure that the experience is enjoyable and comfortable at all times.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    9. Honestly explain cost (time and money) implications, potential complications, and the level and source of support they can expect.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    10. Patiently answer questions (or at least understand questions, and try to find answers), and listen to concerns and ideas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    11. Try to end with a route to action, if they want to take it on further, perhaps making a plan for further exploration or adoption\/adaption into practice \u2013 within the bounds of resources that are available.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      I recommend also reading this article by Catherine Allen (who many years ago worked with me as a technology adoption\/adaptation advisor in the Arts Faculty at Warwick): What Audiences Want from Immersive Experiences.<\/a> Catherine’s company Limina Immersive<\/a> have used a participatory research approach to systematically develop a deep understanding of how to guide people in adopting and adapting immersive tech into their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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