Sökning: "Cultural-historical activity theory"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 41 avhandlingar innehållade orden Cultural-historical activity theory.
1. Dialectics of Negotiagency : Micro Mechanisms in Children’s Negotiation in Play Activity
Sammanfattning : This study is about the children in a fourth and fifth grade Swedish primary school class and their play during breaktimes. The study takes the theoretical point of departure in seeing children’s breaktime play as a cultural historical activity. LÄS MER
2. Designing guidance along audio-haptically augmented paths in a city environment
Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this thesis is to show in a case study how it is possible to inform, with Activity Theory, the design and evaluation of a pedestrian navigation system that uses audio-tactile feedback. The case study consists of an iterative design process that results in a tourist guide application used in a mobile phone. LÄS MER
3. The Growth of Phrases. User-centred Design for Activity-based Voice Output Communication Aids
Sammanfattning : An activity-based vocabulary for Voice Output Communication Aids (VOCAs) was designed and evaluated through a user-centred, iterative design process, using expressions from the Gothenburg Spoken Language Corpus as well as other recorded, natural conversations. The growth and development of the vocabulary, called Phrases, was closely linked to its evaluation. LÄS MER
4. The Activity Diamond - Modeling an Enhanced Accessibility
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the research presented in this thesis is to enhance the field of accessibility to include a multitude of perspectives. Based on cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT), it analyzes how human, artifactual and natural factors impact an individual’s possibilities to act in concrete situations that are part of a systemic whole. LÄS MER
5. Tools in and out of sight : an analysis informed by Cultural-Historical Activity Theory of audio-haptic activities involving people with visual impairments supported by technology
Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this thesis is to present a Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) based analysis of the activities conducted by and with visually impaired users supported by audio-haptic technology.This thesis covers several studies conducted in two projects. LÄS MER