West meets East: Adapting Activity Theory for HCI & CSCW applications?

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 240-246

  Diaper, Dan ^a   Lindgaard, Gitte ^b  

^a DDD SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activity Theory; Computer supported cooperative work; Cross cultural migration; Human computer interaction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACTIVITY THEORY; CROSS CULTURAL MIGRATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 39149119620     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2007.11.006     Document Type: Note

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