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ECSCW
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Plans as Situated Action: An Activity Theory Approach to Workflow Systems
: Within the community of CSCW the notion and nature of workflow systems as prescriptions of human work has been debated and criticised. Based on the work of Suchman (1987) the not...
Jakob Bardram
WSPI
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Practices, Systems, and Context Working as Core Concepts in Modeling Socio-Technical Systems
This work draws on the cultural historical activity-theory and the theory of social systems to model socio-technical systems. The concepts of practice, system, and context work as ...
Heidrun Allert, Christoph Richter
GROUP
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Communities of action: a cognitive and social approach to the design of CSCW systems
Most current theories about collective cognitive activities in limited groups apply to structurally closed co-operative situations Here we propose to work in the framework of inte...
Manuel Zacklad
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Activity Systems and Context Working as Core Concepts in Modeling Socio-Technical Systems
Current modeling approaches in the field of learning and work resemble the notion of workflows and hence fall short in describing the situated and socially mediated nature of pract...
Heidrun Allert, Christoph Richter
EJIS
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Toward an 'IT Conflict-Resistance Theory': action research during IT pre-implementation
Most empirical research on users' resistance toward Information Technology (IT) has been conducted after implementation of IT in organisations. Little research has been done ...
Regis Meissonier, Emmanuel Houzé