Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Agency over time

I'll not deal with long term transformations of agency over time, though I think it is important. Kaptelinin et al mentions about these changes over time and their importance:

"All practice is reformed and shaped by historical development. It is important to understand how tools are used not in a single instant of trying them out in a laboratory (for instance) but as usage unfolds over time. In that time, development may occur making the tool more useful and efficient than might be seen in a single observation" (Kaptelinin, 1999).

Thus,  I should at least discuss it at a certain extent to show my consideration of it.


Victor Kaptelinin, Bonnie A. Nardi, and Catriona Macaulay. 1999. Methods & tools: The activity checklist: a tool for representing the \“space\” of context. interactions 6, 4 (July 1999), 27-3

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