Shaping technology across social worlds: groupware adoption in a distributed organization
GROUP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
"Constant, constant, multi-tasking craziness": managing multiple working spheres
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
No task left behind?: examining the nature of fragmented work
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Discussion: 57 Varieties of Activity Theory
Interacting with Computers
Discussion: "Working sphere/engagement" and the concept of task in activity theory
Interacting with Computers
Discussion: Enriching activity theory without shortcuts
Interacting with Computers
Discussion: Reactionary reactions to altering activity theory
Interacting with Computers
Discussion: Missing links in the rhetoric of Activity Theory
Interacting with Computers
Discussion: Understanding work units and activities - A perspective from general psychsology
Interacting with Computers
Discussion: Working spheres or engagements: Implications for designing?
Interacting with Computers
Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design
Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design
Evaluating user experience of adaptive digital educational games with Activity Theory
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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This is the introduction to a set of seven commentary papers. Activity Theory, with its roots in Soviet Communist society, is introduced and the relevant, critical concept of a three level hierarchy of human activity is summarised, along with a key proposal that for Western HCI and CSCW applications the utility of this hierarchy would be improved by the introduction of a new, intermediate level, called either 'working spheres' or 'engagements'. A thumbnail sketch of each commentary paper is then provided. Analysis of these papers reveals a set of five 'convergences', ideas and conclusions that occur in at least two of the papers. This introduction concludes that while the problems of migrating and adapting Activity Theory to Western HCI and CSCW applications are here made visible, very similar issues arise when attempts are made using linguistically and culturally closer theories, methods and practices.