Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design (Hardcover)

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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.Victor Kaptelinin is Professor in the Department of
Informatics at Umeå University, Sweden.Bonnie A. Nardi is Professor of
Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at
the University of California, Irvine. 

 
Table of Contents

List of Figures vii
  List of Tables ix   Acknowledgments xi
 I. Activity Theory in Interaction Design 1  1.
Introduction 3  2. Do We Need Theory in Interaction Design?
15  3. Activity Theory in a Nutshell 29  4.
Interaction Design Informed by Activity Theory 73  5. A Design
Application of Activity TheoryThe UMEA System 117  II.
Advanced Issues in Activity Theory 135  6. Objectively Speaking
137  7. Objects of Desire 153  8. Historical
Currents in the Development of Activity Theory 173  III. Theory
in Interaction Design 193  9. Postcognitivist Theories in
Interaction Design 195  10. Artifacts, Agency, and (A)symmetry
237  11. Looking Forward 253   Appendix A: The
Activity Checklist 269   Appendix B: Online Resources on
Activity Theory 279   Notes 283
  References 293   Index 325