One element that recurs in many relevant discussions is the negative spiral:

-> less engagement in activity

-> less satisfaction that occurs through engagement + subsequently less build-up of competence
-> subsequently less engagement in activity...

Subsequently, one could maybeemphasize more broadly disengagement from meaningful activity as problematic - and of course, activity is socially embedded.

#cognitiveEngagement #humanEngagedComputing #activityTheory

Vandaag ben ik (weer) geinspireerd geraakt door presentaties met daarin Gramsci, #Freire, #Hegel, #Marx, #Vygotskij en vele anderen. En jullie?
#ISCAR #activitytheory #culturalhistoricaltheory #research #education
Does anyone know of any work in #ActivityTheory in #psychology or #HCI that uses #ActivityStreams as a structured modelling language?
Really positive day, presenting to our PS staff (50 or so) on #ProcessAutomation and work in progress with the developer. Then using #ActivityTheory to prompt questions about potential areas to look at.
Lots of positive responses, very encouraging.

#metadesign, #artificialintelligence, #fairness, #activitytheory #teachers #education

we are developing a framework for formative design interventions to
enable secondary school teachers to inform future design of artificial intelligence.
We will present ideas at the FERA Conference on Education 2022 in Finland this week.

Initial ideas about "Involving teachers in meta-design of AI to ensure situated fairness" also here: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3136/paper-4.pdf

Article revision submitted. Pretty happy with this design piece on gem-step (mixed reality embodied modeling). Still refining our approach to using #ActivityTheory for design but it’s feeling cleaner and cleaner. One of my goals long-term is to help folks see the value in CHAT beyond its seemingly esoteric nature. More at https://embodiedplay.org.
About STEP

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Science through Technology Enhanced Play (STEP)

#introduction

Part of what I work on, as an #academic #designresearcher, sits at the intersection of #design, #sustainability and #people.

How to help people make #sustainable choices in what they do in #EverydayLife?

That includes multiple theoretical perspectives, such as #DesignForSustainableBehavior #Nudging #SocialPracticeTheory #ActivityTheory #sustainableDoings