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Human-Centered Software Engineering - Software Engineering Models, Patterns and Architectures for HCI (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
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Human-Centered Software Engineering - Software Engineering Models, Patterns and Architectures for HCI (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series
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Activity theory is a way of describing and characterizing the
structure of human - tivity of all kinds. First introduced by
Russian psychologists Rubinshtein, Leontiev, and Vigotsky in the
early part of the last century, activity theory has more recently
gained increasing attention among interaction designers and others
in the hum- computer interaction and usability communities (see,
for example, Gay and H- brooke, 2004). Interest was given a
signi?cant boost when Donald Norman suggested activity-theory and
activity-centered design as antidotes to some of the putative ills
of "human-centered design" (Norman, 2005). Norman, who has been
credited with coining the phrase "user-centered design," suggested
that too much attention focused on human users may be harmful, that
to design better tools designers need to focus not so much on users
as on the activities in which users are engaged and the tasks they
seek to perform within those activities. Although many researchers
and practitioners claim to have used or been in?uenced by activity
theory in their work (see, for example, Nardi, 1996), it is often
dif?cult to trace precisely where or how the results have actually
been shaped by activity theory. Inmanycases,
evendetailedcasestudiesreportresultsthatseemonlydistantlyrelated,
if at all, to the use of activity theory. Contributing to the lack
of precise and traceable impact is that activity theory, - spite
its name, is not truly a formal and proper theory.
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