Context and Consciousness

Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction

Buch | Hardcover

414 Seiten

1995
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-14058-4 (ISBN)

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Intended for designers and researchers, Context and Consciousness brings together 13 contributions that apply activity theory to problems of human-computer interaction. Understanding how people actually use computers in their everyday lives is essential to good design and evaluation. This insight necessitates a move out of the laboratory and into the field. The research described in Context and Consciousness presents activity theory as a means of structuring and guiding field studies of human-computer interaction, from practical design to theoretical development. Activity theory is a psychological theory with a naturalistic emphasis, with roots going back to the 1920s in the Soviet Union. It provides a hierarchical framework for describing activity and a set of perspectives on practice. Activity theory has been fruitfully applied in many areas of human need, including problems of mentally and physically handicapped children, educational testing, curriculum design, and ergonomics. There is growing interest in applying activity theory to problems of human- computer interaction, and an international community of researchers is contributing to the effort.

Contributors
Rachel Bellamy, Susanne Bodker, Ellen Christiansen, Yrjo Engestroem, Virginia Escalante, Dorothy Holland, Victor Kaptelinin, Kari Kuutti, Bonnie A. Nardi, Arne Raeithel, James Reeves, Boris Velichkovksy, Vladimir P. Zinchenko

Bonnie A. Nardi is Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, and Cofounder of Center for Research in Sustainability, Collapse-preparedness, and Information Technology there. She is the coauthor of Acting with Technology (MIT Press).

Part 1 Activity theory basics: introduction; activity theory and human-computer interaction, Bonnie A. Nardi; activity theory as a potential framework for human-computer interaction research, Kari Kuutti; computer-mediated activity - functional organs in social and developmental contexts, Victor Kaptelinin; studying context - a comparison of activity theory, situated action models and distributed cognition, Bonnie A. Nardi; activity theory - implications for human-computer interaction, Victor Kaptelinin. Part 2 Activity theory in practical design: introduction; designing educational technology - computer-mediated change, R.K.E. Bellamy; applying activity theory to video analysis - how to make sense of video data in HCI, Susanne Bodker; tamed by a rose - computers as tools in human activity, Ellen Christiansen; joint attention and co-construction of tasks - new ways to foster user-designed collaboration, Arne Raeithel and Boris M. Velichkovsky; some reflections on the application of activity theory, Bonnie A. Nardi. Part 3 Activity theory - theoretical development: introduction; activity theory and the view from somewhere - team perspectives on the intellectual work of programming, Dorothy Holland and James R. Reeves; developing activity theory - the zone of proximal development and beyond, Vladimir P. Zinchenko; mundane tool or object of affection? the rise and fall of the postal buddy, Yrjo Engestrom and Virginia Escalante; epilogue, Bonnie A. Nardi.

Reihe/Serie	The MIT Press
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 229 mm
Gewicht	794 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
ISBN-10	0-262-14058-6 / 0262140586
ISBN-13	978-0-262-14058-4 / 9780262140584
Zustand	Neuware