Integrating activity theory and organizational modeling for context of use analysis

  • Authors:
  • Genésio Cruz Neto;Alex Sandro Gomes;Jaelson Castro;Suzana Sampaio

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculdade Integrada do Recife, Recife PE, Brasil;Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, CIn, Recife PE, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, CIn, Recife PE, Brazil;Centro de Estudos e Sistemas Avançados do Recife, Recife PE, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • CLIHC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 Latin American conference on Human-computer interaction
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Activity Theory is a theoretical-based context analysis technique that anchors the ethnographer descriptive work, calling his attention to the individual and social elements of human activities. For more than a decade, it has been a recognized framework for enhancing computer design practices, however there are still no methods for integrating context analysis based on Activity Theory with traditional system modeling techniques. In this paper we present a system design process that integrates ethnographic analysis based on Activity Theory with the i* organizational modeling technique. The approach uses human-practices analysis as the social root for system requirements derivation.