ACTIVITY THEORY AS A FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEXTUAL INQUIRY: A CASE STUDY

Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2009 and Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Game and Entertainment Technologies, GET 2009 - Part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, MCCSIS 2009

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 78-86

  De Boever, Jorn ^a   De Grooff, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Activity theory; contextual inquiry; fieldwork; P2P networks

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

ACTIVITY THEORY; CASE-STUDIES; CONTEXTUAL INQUIRY; FIELDWORK; P2P NETWORK; REAL-LIFE CONTEXTS; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; USER BEHAVIORS; USER STUDY;

LIME;

EID: 84899421242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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