Applying Systemic-Structural Activity Theory to Design of Human-Computer Interaction Systems

CONCEPT OF SELF-REGULATION IN PSYCHOLOGY AND ERGONOMICS
Concept of Self-Regulation Outside of Activity Theory
Concept of Self-Regulation versus Input/Output Task Analysis
Self-Regulation from Control Theory Perspectives
Self-Regulation in Cognitive Psychology
Self-Regulation in Action Theory
Concept of Self-Regulation in I/O Psychology
Overview of the Concepts of Self-Regulation
Concept of Self-Regulation in Activity Theory: Psychophysiology and Psychophysics Perspectives
General Characteristics of Activity Approach
Anokhins Concept of Functional Self-Regulative System
Bernshtein’s Concept of Self-Regulation and Motor Activity Analysis
Applications that Derived from the Psychophysiological Study of Self-Regulation
Analysis of Activity Strategies in Signal Detection Tasks
Concept of Self-Regulation in Systemic-Structural Activity Theory and Strategies of Task Performance
Concept of Self-Regulation and SA: Comparative Analysis
Self-Regulation Model of Orienting Activity
General Model of Activity Self-Regulation
Individual Aspects of Activity Self-Regulation
Self-Regulation of Positioning Actions Performance
Thinking as a Self-Regulative System and Task Analysis
Meaning and Sense as a Tool of Thinking Process
Meaning as a Function of Standardized Actions
Study of Thinking in the Framework of Task Analysis
Self-Regulation Model of Thinking Process
Integration of Cognitive and Activity Approaches in the Study of Thinking
Attention as a Self-Regulative System
Mechanisms of Attention and Strategies of Information Processing
Self-Regulative Model of Attention
DESIGN
Cognitive and Behavioral Actions as Basic Units of Activity Analysis
Description and Classification of Cognitive Actions
Principles of Cognitive Actions Extraction in Task Analysis
Description of Motor Actions and the Time of Their Performance
MTM-1 and Strategies of Activity Performance
Morphological Analysis of Work Activity during Performance of Human-Computer Interaction Tasks
Introduction to Morphological Analysis of Activity
Algorithmic Task Analysis versus Constraint-Based Approach
QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF COMPUTER-BASED TASK
Quantitative Assessment of Task Complexity Computer-Based Tasks
Analysis of Existing Method of Complexity Evaluation of Computer-Based Tasks
Theoretical Principles for Evaluating the Complexity of the Computer-Based Task
Complexity Evaluation: Practical Example
Basic Principles of Morphological Analysis of Computer-Based Tasks
Extraction of Cognitive and Behavioral Actions from Eye and Mouse Movement Data
Action Classification Table Analysis
Algorithmic Description of Task and Its Time Structure Analysis
Evaluation of Task Complexity of Computer-Based Task
Introduction to Human Reliability Assessment
Method of Human Reliability Assessment of Computer-Based Tasks
Error Analysis in Computer-Based Tasks
Systemic-Structural Activity Approach to Reliability Assessment of Computer-Based Tasks
Objectively Logical Analysis of the Existing Method of Task Performance
Algorithmic Description of Existing Method of Task Performance
Analysis of Erroneous Actions and Failures for the Existing Method of Task Performance
Reliability Assessment of the Existing Method of Task Performance
Algorithmic Description of the New Method of Task Performance
Evaluation of the Reliability of New Method of Task Performance
Formalized and Quantitative Analysis of Exploratory Activity in HCI Tasks
General Characteristics of a Web-Survey Task
Algorithmic Description of the Web-Survey Task
Analysis of Abandoned Actions
Conclusion
Glossary
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Biography

Gregory Bedny presently resides in Wayne, NJ. He works as a Research Associate at Evolute, Inc. in Louisville, Kentucky. He is an American citizen who emigrated from the former Soviet where he earned his Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Industrial Organizational Psychology from the Educational University of Moscow and a Post-Doctorate Degree (ScD) in Experimental Psychology from the Institute of General and Educational Psychology, National Pedagogical Academy of Science of USSR. He also is Academician of the International Academy of Human Problems in Aviation and Astronautics in Russia and Honorary Doctorate in Science, Ukrainian State University. For his achievements in psychology he has been awarded the Medal of the Ukrainian National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. He is the author of five original scholarly books, the latest of which were published in USA.

"The book overcomes the traditional separation between cognition, behavior, and motivation using a systemic approach to the analysis of human work activity. The new approach enables a more user-friendly design of tasks in HCI and ergonomic design of complex human–machine systems such as operation of automatic or semiautomatic systems. … The authors did an outstanding job."
—Helmut Strasser, Ergonomics Division Siegen University/Germany

"… presents a new systemic view based on activity theory to a very challenging multi-dimensional field. … The theory presented in the book is put into practice and can be used also by practitioners in different fields."
—Jussi Kantola Professor, University of Vaasa, Finland