#activitytheory

2024-08-29

Vandaag ben ik (weer) geinspireerd geraakt door presentaties met daarin Gramsci, #Freire, #Hegel, #Marx, #Vygotskij en vele anderen. En jullie?
#ISCAR #activitytheory #culturalhistoricaltheory #research #education

Evan Prodromouevan@cosocial.ca
2023-04-29

Does anyone know of any work in #ActivityTheory in #psychology or #HCI that uses #ActivityStreams as a structured modelling language?

2023-02-07

Really positive day, presenting to our PS staff (50 or so) on #ProcessAutomation and work in progress with the developer. Then using #ActivityTheory to prompt questions about potential areas to look at.
Lots of positive responses, very encouraging.

UCL branded slide showing UCAS application process as a flow diagram, with 3 rationales for automation:
Increasingly complex processes
Reliance on local caches from centralised systems
Increased workload just moving and managing dataUCL branded slide showing a triangle with Engestrom's Extended Activity Theory. Tools, Subject, Object, Rules, Community, Division of Labour - all contribute to outcome.
Some questions are prompted when you analyse the activity in this way.Initial prompts including.
What activity or process do we most dread?
What seems to consume too far too much time and effort for the task in hand?
Which parts of the process is caused most errors?
What is the trigger for the process?
2022-11-23

#metadesign, #artificialintelligence, #fairness, #activitytheory #teachers #education

we are developing a framework for formative design interventions to
enable secondary school teachers to inform future design of artificial intelligence.
We will present ideas at the FERA Conference on Education 2022 in Finland this week.

Initial ideas about "Involving teachers in meta-design of AI to ensure situated fairness" also here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3136/paper-4.p

2022-11-08

Article revision submitted. Pretty happy with this design piece on gem-step (mixed reality embodied modeling). Still refining our approach to using #ActivityTheory for design but it’s feeling cleaner and cleaner. One of my goals long-term is to help folks see the value in CHAT beyond its seemingly esoteric nature. More at embodiedplay.org.

Reneeweverreneewever
2022-11-06

Part of what I work on, as an , sits at the intersection of , and .

How to help people make choices in what they do in ?

That includes multiple theoretical perspectives, such as

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