Table 2.

Overview of data structure and analysis.

Data source	Data collected	First order interpretations	Higher-order interpretations
Organisational case study of the design, development, implementation and use of care organising technologies	➢Accounts of 35 staff (developers, commissioners, local authority staff, voluntary agency staff) involved in developing and implementing care organising technologies ➢Approximately 40 h of observation (eg, local authority planning meetings) ➢43 documents plus researcher field notes about people and technologies involved in caring and care organising technologies	➢Key interactions and interdependencies ➢Key organisational strategies and how these change over time ➢Perceptions on the development, design, safety and success of care organising technologies	➢‘Scripts’ held by organisations/staff about caring and the role of technologies, and how they change over time Assumptions built into the technology about: ➢capability of users/carers ➢how people interact (inc. with the cared for person) ➢privacy and consent ➢caring work and routines ➢how these all interact
Individual user case studies of care organising technologies	➢Accounts of 27 users (10 Together, 10 TextMe and 7 Sharing Care) ➢Descriptive and demographic data of users and those they are caring for ➢Autoethnographic account (SS) of using Sharing Care and Together, plus screen capture of Together and TextMe interactions	➢What is said and done by carers (and cared for person) ➢Unfolding interaction, strategies for communication and use of technology ➢How technology shapes and constrains caring ➢How participants felt	➢Internal social structures (what actors ‘know’ and how they interpret the strategic terrain, including what caring with/without technology means ➢Human-technology-world relations (how carers, different technologies and the social world relate) ➢‘Scripts’ held by users about how they should care and how this changes over time