Title: Context & Consciousness � " Activity Theory & Human� "Computer Interaction (The MIT Press)
Publisher: Mit Pr
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0262140586
ISBN 13: 9780262140584
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Fine
Weight: 821 grams

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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 B�dker, Ellen Christiansen, Yrjo Engestr�m, Virginia Escalante, Dorothy Holland, Victor Kaptelinin, Kari Kuutti, Bonnie A. Nardi, Arne Raeithel, James Reeves, Boris Velichkovksy, Vladimir P. Zinchenko

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Bonnie A. Nardi is Research Scientist in the Advanced Technology Group at Apple Computer and the author of A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing.

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