DoCTA Resources - Literature Review Kaptelinin, V. & Nardi, B. A. (1997). The Activity Checklist: A tool for representing the "space" of context. Working paper. Department of Informatics, Umeå University, .
This paper introduces the Activity Checklist, a practical tool to provide guidance and structure for empirical work that takes account of context in design and evalutation. The Checklist is based on activity theory, whick provides concepts and vocabulary for analyzing the context of computer-supported work. The paper discusses activity theory, presents the Checklist, and shows its use via an example of a specific technology, Apple Data Detectors.