Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction DesignA systematic presentation of activity theory, its application to interaction design, and an argument for the development of activity theory as a basis for understanding how people interact with technology. Activity theory holds that the human mind is the product of our interaction with people and artifacts in the context of everyday activity. Acting with Technology makes the case for activity theory as a basis for understanding our relationship with technology. Victor Kaptelinin and Bonnie Nardi describe activity theory's principles, history, relationship to other theoretical approaches, and application to the analysis and design of technologies. The book provides the first systematic entry-level introduction to the major principles of activity theory. It describes the accumulating body of work in interaction design informed by activity theory, drawing on work from an international community of scholars and designers. Kaptelinin and Nardi examine the notion of the object of activity, describe its use in an empirical study, and discuss key debates in the development of activity theory. Finally, they outline current and future issues in activity theory, providing a comparative analysis of the theory and its leading theoretical competitors within interaction design: distributed cognition, actor-network theory, and phenomenologically inspired approaches. |
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... perspective . From a biological perspective , a need is an objective requirement of an organism . Having a need means that something should be present in the environment . Organisms may need food , water , air , or a certain temperature ...
... perspective on their own practice ) . These different perspectives foreground different sets of requirements for the artifact in question . The theoretical explorations into the types and phenomena of design informed by instrumental ...
... perspective on big problems and yet be a part of the local scene ...... .. Activity theory's general perspective on the borderline between public and private is in many respects different from the vision proposed by Brown . In ...
Contents
Do We Need Theory in Interaction Design? | 15 |
Activity Theory in a Nutshell | 29 |
Interaction Design Informed by Activity Theory | 73 |
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