Nardi collaborated with Victor Kaptelinin to write " Acting with Technology : Activity Theory and Interaction Design " ( 2009 ) and " Activity Theory in HCI : Fundamentals and Reflections " ( 2012 ).
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He has contributed to numerous fields of research, including information and communication technologies in education, video games and learning, tool-mediated knowledge construction, authentic learning, and Cultural Historical Activity Theory ( CHAT ).
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Ecocomposition should not be confused or conflated with other systemic approaches to writing such as activity theory, which do not account for the dynamic relationship between writing and place but posit a transcendent " context " that affects writing.
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Additionally, Spillane and Gronn both draw on an application of activity theory in the field of leadership research that grew out of Mintzberg s studies of work-activity, observing managers through structured observations to document what they actually do.
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Activity theory, according to David Russell, " traces cognition and behavior, including writing, to social interaction . " Activity theorists examine the ways that the work done in one sphere of activity could potentially change the work done in another.
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Based on Situational Crime Prevention ( SCP ) " rational choice, opportunity reduction " principles, and employing philosophy from routine activity theory ( RAT ) the MRA is designed to reduce theft through reducing the demand for stolen goods that motivated thieves to steal.
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This work was subsequently developed by researchers such as Pushkin, Zinchenko & Gordeeva, Ponomarenko, Zarakovsky and others, and is currently most well-known through the work on systemic-structural activity theory being carried out by G . Z . Bedny and his associates.
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In more recent years, Newman ( along with his primary collaborator, Lois Holzman ) incorporated other influences, including the 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Aleksey Leontyev's and Sergei Rubinshtein's activity theory, and the work of early Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky.
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The second major line of development within activity theory involves Russian scientists, such as P . K . Anokhin and N . A . Bernshtein, more directly concerned with the neurophysiological basis of activity; its foundation is associated with the Soviet philosopher of psychology S . L . Rubinshtein.
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The activity theory is applicable for a stable, post-industrial society, which offers its older members many opportunities for meaningful participation . Weakness : Some aging persons cannot maintain a middle-aged lifestyle, due to functional limitations, lack of income, or lack of a desire to do so.
