Context and Consciousness

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).

Part 1 Activity theory basics: introduction; 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. Part 2 Activity theory in practical design: introduction; designing educational technology - computer-mediated change, R.K.E. Bellamy; applying activity theory to video analysis - how to make sense of video data in HCI, Susanne Bodker; tamed by a rose - computers as tools in human activity, Ellen Christiansen; joint attention and co-construction of tasks - new ways to foster user-designed collaboration, Arne Raeithel and Boris M. Velichkovsky; some reflections on the application of activity theory, Bonnie A. Nardi. Part 3 Activity theory - theoretical development: introduction; 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, Yrjo Engestrom and Virginia Escalante; epilogue, Bonnie A. Nardi.