Cultural-historical activity theory: founding insights and new challenges

"Vygotsky's Neglected Legacy": Cultural-Historical Activity Theory

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Cultural tourism: challenges and strategies

84 . A Cultural - Historical Activity Theory Approach to Users , Usability and Usefulness

This paper takes an historical overview of the field of Human-Computer Interaction. It describes how the cognitive psychology emphasis on user involvement in systems development of the 1980s reached its limit by the early 1990s. At this point the focus shifted onto support for the tasks of users using computer-based systems in real contexts, a focus that ideally suits the mobile, ubiquitous and...

A Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Approach to Users, Usability and Usefulness

This paper takes an historical overview of the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Itdescribes how the cognitive psychology emphasis on user involvement in systemsdevelopment of the 1980s reached its limit by the early 1990s. At this point the focus shifted onto support for the tasks of users using computer-based systems in real contexts, a focus that ideally suits the mobile, ubiquitous and s...

Cultural-historical activity theory and domain analysis: metatheoretical implications for information science

Background. cultural-historical activity theory is an important theory in modern psychology. In recent years, it has drawn more attention from related disciplines including information science. Argument. This paper argues that activity theory and domain analysis which uses the theory as one of its bases could bring about some important metatheoretical implications for information science. Elabo...