Acting With Technology Quotes

“Ethnomethodology, a small but influential subfield of sociology founded by Harold Garfinkel (1967), took as its project the description of how people produce orderly social conduct. Ethnomethodologists argue that orderliness is enacted as people draw on resources in their environments, resources with which to improvise meaningful action. Action is not preordered by anything that can be reduced to theoretical principles; rather, the analyst considers specific instances of organized action, and describes those. An”
― Victor Kaptelinin, Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design

“Therefore, according to activity theory, the ultimate cause behind human activities is needs. Needs”
― Victor Kaptelinin, Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design