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Activity theory and information seeking
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This article is published in Annual Review of Information Science and Technology.The article was published on 2008-01-01. It has received 68 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Information seeking & Information science.read more
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Working with activity theory: Context, technology, and information behavior
TL;DR: It is argued that by providing a framework and hierarchy of activity-action-operation and semantic tools, CHAT is able to overcome many of the uncertainties concerning information behavior research and can increase the significance of information behaviorResearch to practice.
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How should technology-mediated organizational change be explained? a comparison of the contributions of critical realism and activity theory
TL;DR: An activity theoretic analysis of the implementation of large-scale disruptive information systems in a public sector setting is used to illustrate how activity theory makes a significant contribution to critical realism.
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The sociological turn in information science
TL;DR: The history of `the social' in information science traces the influence of social scientific thinking on the development of the field's intellectual base and the continuing appropriation from domains such as social studies of science, science and technology studies, and socio-technical systems is discussed.
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Activity Theory in HCI: Fundamentals and Reflections
Victor Kaptelinin,Bonnie Nardi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the conceptual foundations of activity theory and its contribution to human-computer interaction (HCI) research, making the case for theory in HCI and briefly discussing the contribution of activity theories to the field.
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The information user: past, present and future
TL;DR: The emergence of research on various aspects of `information behaviour' is explored and its growth as a subject of academic research is documented, leading to a division between the needs of academia for theoretically grounded work, and the Needs of the field of practice for guidance for service development.
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Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Organizations: An Overview and Interpretation
TL;DR: The concept of knowledge is complex and its relevance to organization theory has been insuficiently developed as discussed by the authors, and there is current interest in the competitive advantage that knowledge may provide for organizations and in the significance of knowledge workers, organ izational competencies and knowledge intensive firms.
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Activity Theory as a Framework for Designing Constructivist Learning Environments
TL;DR: This paper argues that activity theory provides an appropriate framework for analyzing needs, tasks, and outcomes for designing constructivist learning environments (CLEs) and describes a process for using activity theory as a framework for describing the components of an activity system that can be modeled in CLEs.
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Activity theory as a framework for analyzing and redesigning work
TL;DR: Cultural-historical activity theory is a new framework aimed at transcending the dichotomies of micro- and macro-, mental and material, observation and intervention in analysis and redesign of work, and finds from a longitudinal intervention study of children's medical care illuminate the theoretical arguments.
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Task complexity affects information seeking and use
TL;DR: The relationships of task complexity, necessary information types, information channels, and sources are analyzed at the task level on the basis of a qualitative investigation using diaries, questionnaires, and questionnaires.
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Cognitive perspectives of information retrieval interaction : elements of a cognitive IR theory
TL;DR: The objective of the paper is to amalgamate theories of text retrieval from various research traditions into a cognitive theory for information retrieval interaction that views IR interaction as processes of cognition, potentially occurring in all the information processing components of IR, that may be applied to the user in a situational context.