Articulating the Sense of Place Experienced by Visitors to the Jencks Landform
Book Chapter
Smyth, M. (2005)
Articulating the Sense of Place Experienced by Visitors to the Jencks Landform. In P. Turner, & E. Davenport (Eds.), Spaces, Spatiality and Technology (249-260). Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3273-0_17
A question of realism.
Conference Proceeding
Hetherington, R., Crerar, A., & Turner, P. (2004)
A question of realism. In User-Centered Interaction Paradigms for Universal Access in the Information Society, 68-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30111-0_6
We present the results of an exploratory study investigating the feasibility of using multimedia software to teach life skills to adults with learning difficulties. As a precu...
Activity theory: another perspective on task analysis.
Book Chapter
Turner, P., & McEwan, T. (2003)
Activity theory: another perspective on task analysis. In D. Diaper, & N. Stanton (Eds.), The Handbook of Task Analysis for Human-Computer Interaction (423-444). CRC Press
In this chapter, we introduce activity theory, describing its origins and its principal researchers and thinkers. We stress its descriptive power and its usefulness in definin...
End-user perspectives on the uptake of computer supported cooperative working.
Journal Article
Turner, S. & Turner, P. (2002)
End-user perspectives on the uptake of computer supported cooperative working. Journal of Organizational and End User Computing. 14, 3-15. doi:10.4018/joeuc.2002040101. ISSN 1546-2234
Researchers in Information Systems have produced a rich collection of meta-analyses and models to further understanding of factors influencing the uptake of information techno...
A web of contradictions.
Journal Article
Turner, S. & Turner, P. (2001)
A web of contradictions. Interacting with Computers. 14, 1-14. doi:10.1016/S0953-5438(01)00039-X. ISSN 0953-5438
We describe our use of contradictions, a concept central to a popular formulation of activity theory, to derive requirements of a new technical system to support an administra...
Describing team work with activity theory.
Journal Article
Turner, S. & Turner, P. (2001)
Describing team work with activity theory. Cognition, Technology and Work. 3, 127-139. doi:10.1007/PL00011528. ISSN 1435-5558
The proposal that activity theory might serve as a model or theory for computer-supported cooperative working remains an open question. Here we demonstrate the usefulness of a...
Caught between real and virtual worlds.
Book
Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2000)
Caught between real and virtual worlds. In J. Bawa, P. Dorazio, & L. Trenner (Eds.), The Usability Business: Making the Web Work, 60-70. Springer-Verlag
This chapter describes how we, as HCI practitioners, contributed to the design of a collaborative virtual environment-based simulator. This simulator is to be used by senior m...