Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction |  | Creator: Bonnie A. Nardi
Publisher: The MIT Press
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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 Bødker. Ellen Christiansen. Yrjo Engeström. Virginia Escalante. Dorothy Holland. Victor Kaptelinin. Kari Kuutti. Bonnie A. Nardi. Arne Raeithel. James Reeves. Boris Velichkovksy. Vladimir P. Zinchenko.
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 A Must Read for Interaction Designers March 10, 2007
Sean P. Goggins
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nardi has edited a provocative compendium of theoretical expositions and methodological examples for the application of activity theory in the design of collaborative computing systems. In many ways, this book was ahead of its time. It's importance to the emerging disciplines of interaction design and design based research should not be underestimated.
One of my favorite books.
 Its about the activity... December 15, 2000
Michael Frankel (Cambridge, MA USA)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a mind blowing collection of papers that would interest any enthusiast of educational frameworks/theories. It clearly states the implications of activity theory to instructional design/architecture, knowledge management and all that fun stuff. The first couple of papers, by Nardi, Kuutiti and others, are particularly provocative.
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