Human-Centered Software Engineering: Software Engineering Models, Patterns and Architectures for HCI - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1848009062 ISBN 13 : 9781848009066

Editeur : Springer London Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book establishes a dialog between the Human-Computer Interaction community and Software Engineering practitioners and researchers on the results and lessons learned associated with applying software development practices in the field of user interface.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848009062
• ISBN 13: 9781848009066
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 398
• Éditeur: Seffah Ahmed, Vanderdonckt Jean, Desmarais Michel C.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: KINESIS; https://www.also.com/ec/cms5/en_6000/6000/index.jsp; ; Friedrich-Karl-Str. 9; Hamburg; 22391; Allemagne