Activity theory applied to global software engineering: Theoretical foundations and implications for tool builders

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 7th International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 21-30

  Tell, Paolo ^a   Babar, Muhammad Ali ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Activity Theory; Global Software Engineering

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY THEORY; ACTIVITY-BASED COMPUTING; ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT; DESKTOP METAPHORS; FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; GLOBAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; IN-BUILDINGS; INHERENT LIMITATIONS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS;

EID: 84870696387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2012.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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