Context and consciousness : activity theory and human-computer interaction / edited by Bonnie A. Nardi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

I. Activity theory basics. 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.

II. Activity theory in practical design. Designing educational technology: computer-mediated change / R.K.E. Ballamy -- Applying activity theory to video analysis: how to make sense of video data in HCI / Susanne Bødker -- Tamed by a rose: computers as tools in human activity / Ellen Christiansen -- Joint attention and co-construction of tasks: new ways to foster user-designer collaboration / Arne Raeithel and Boris M. Velichkovsky -- Some reflections on the application of activity theory / Bonnie A. Nardi.

III. Activity theory: theoretical development. 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 / Yrjö Engeström and Virginia Escalante -- Epilogue / Bonnie A. Nardi.

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