Re: [IxDA Discuss] quite good introduction on activity theory

2008-07-07 Thread Diana Harrelson
That is very interesting in that that is how I approach design myself. I am a design / cyber anthropologist who happens to be employed as a usability and interface engineer for a software company while I work through grad school. Unfortunately most of what I work on is protected by an NDA and

[IxDA Discuss] quite good introduction on activity theory

2008-07-06 Thread Jarod Tang
Hi Guys, There's a good introduction of activity theory, http://mcs.open.ac.uk/yr258/act_theory/ texts from this article As an alternative theory, the conceptual framework of Activity theory is a good way of providing the means of analyzing the actions and interactions with artifacts within a