Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design by Kaptelinin, Victor
Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design by Kaptelinin, Victor

Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design

A systematic presentation of activity theory, its application to interaction design, and an argument for the development...
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Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design by Kaptelinin, Victor

Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design

$491.60
Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design by Kaptelinin, Victor

Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design

$491.60
Author: Victor Kaptelinin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A 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.



Author: Victor Kaptelinin, Bonnie A. Nardi
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780262513319
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Victor Kaptelinin is Professor in the Department of Informatics at Umeå University, Sweden, and Professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is coeditor of Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments (MIT Press, 2007).

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).


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