Activity-centered design : an ecological approach to designing smart tools and usable systems /

The shift in the practice of human-computer interaction (HCI) Design from user-centered to context-based design marks a significant change in focus. With context-based design, designers start not with a preconceived idea of what users should do, but with an understanding of what users actually do. C...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gay, Geri
Otros Autores: Hembrooke, Helene
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004.
Colección:Acting with technology.
Temas:
Human-computer interaction.
System design.
Human-machine systems > Design.
Conception de systèmes.
COMPUTERS > Interactive & Multimedia.
COMPUTERS > Social Aspects > Human-Computer Interaction.
Engineering & Applied Sciences.
Computer Science.
COMPUTER SCIENCE/Human Computer Interaction
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Mediating Interactions
  • Introduction: Making the Case for Context-Based Design
  • 1. Activity Theory and Context-Based Design
  • 2. Understanding Perspectives: Social Construction of Technology
  • 3. Creating a Sense of Place: Designing for Online Learning Conversations
  • 4. Blurring Boundaries: A study of Ubiquitous Computing
  • 5. Designing for Context-Aware Computing
  • 6. Configural Analysis of Spaces and Places.

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