Activity theory and human-computer interaction
Context and consciousness
Some reflections on the application of activity theory
Context and consciousness
Modeling document-mediated interaction
Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Computer documentation
Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Computer documentation
A self-paced approach to hypermedia design for patient education
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international conference on Design of communication: The engineering of quality documentation
Four ways to investigate assemblages of texts: genre sets, systems, repertoires, and ecologies
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international conference on Design of communication: The engineering of quality documentation
SIGDOC '06 Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design (Acting with Technology)
Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design (Acting with Technology)
When social networking meets online games: the activity system of grouping in world of warcraft
SIGDOC '07 Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Triangulating communication design: emerging models for theory and practice
SIGDOC '07 Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Distributed value system matrix: a new use for distributed usability testing
SIGDOC '07 Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Communication design and theories of learning
Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication
"edit this page": the socio-technological infrastructure of a wikipedia article
Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication
Backchannel persistence and collaborative meaning-making
Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication
Best practices for designing third party applications for contextually-aware tools
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
Exploring a sustainable and public information ecology
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
Hierarchical task instance mining in interaction histories
Proceedings of the 29th ACM international conference on Design of communication
A Study of Computing Undergraduates Undertaking a Systematic Literature Review
IEEE Transactions on Education
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Activity theory has become an increasingly important theoretical framework for practitioners and researchers in a wide variety of fields. Offering a set of tools for exploring and theorizing everyday practice, activity theory has proven to be a useful lens for exploring how various artifacts and genres mediate social practices. This article systematically analyzes the use of activity theory by researchers publishing work in the ACM SIGDOC proceedings between 2001 and 2011. By paying attention to the cultural-historical situatedness of a given author, his or her terminology, and the ostensible function of activity theory within each piece, a more comprehensive understanding of the adaptive nature of activity theoretical approaches to design of communication emerges. And as activity theory continues to be used within disciplines relevant to design of communication, a framework for understanding both the previous and potential roles of activity theory in the scholarly literature is needed and is provided, in part, by our analysis.