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Applying Systemic-Structural
Activity Theory to
Design of Human–Computer
Interaction Systems
Ergonomics Design and Management:
Theory and Applications
Series Editor
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Gregory Z. Bedny
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Gregory Z. Bedny, Waldemar Karwowski, and Inna Bedny
Ergonomics: Foundational Principles, Applications, and Technologies
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Handbook of Human Factors in Consumer Product Design, 2 vol. set
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Contents
Preface ......................................................................................................................xi
Authors ...................................................................................................................xv
Section I Concept of Self-Regulation in Psychology
and Ergonomics
1. Concept of Self-Regulation Outside of Activity Theory ........................3
1.1 Concept of Self-Regulation versus Input/Output Task Analysis .....3
1.2 Self-Regulation from Control Theory Perspectives .........................6
1.3 Self-Regulation in Cognitive Psychology ........................................15
1.4 Self-Regulation in Action Theory .....................................................18
1.5 Concept of Self-Regulation in I/O Psychology ...............................24
1.6 Overview of the Concepts of Self-Regulation .................................31
2. Concept of Self-Regulation in Activity Theory:
Psychophysiology and Psychophysics Perspectives ..............................37
2.1 General Characteristics of Activity Approach ................................37
2.2 Anokhin’s Concept of Functional Self-Regulative System ............43
2.3 Bernshtein’s Concept of Self-Regulation and Motor Activity
Analysis ................................................................................................50
2.4 Applications that Derived from the Psychophysiological
Study of Self-Regulation ....................................................................58
2.5 Analysis of Activity Strategies in Signal Detection Tasks ............64
3. Concept of Self-Regulation in Systemic-Structural Activity
Theory and Strategies of Task Performance ...........................................71
3.1 Concept of Self-Regulation and SA: Comparative Analysis .........71
3.2 Self-Regulation Model of Orienting Activity ..................................86
3.3 General Model of Activity Self-Regulation ...................................101
3.4 Individual Aspects of Activity Self-Regulation ............................113
3.5 Self-Regulation of Positioning Actions Performance ...................120
4. Thinking as a Self-Regulative System and Task Analysis ................139
4.1 Meaning and Sense as a Tool of Thinking Process ......................139
4.2 Meaning as a Function of Standardized Actions .........................145
4.3 Study of Thinking in the Framework of Task Analysis ..............148
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4.4 Self-Regulation Model of Thinking Process .................................155
4.5 Integration of Cognitive and Activity Approaches in the
Study of Thinking .............................................................................163
5. Attention as a Self-Regulative System ...................................................169
5.1 Mechanisms of Attention and Strategies of Information
Processing ..........................................................................................169
5.2 Self-Regulative Model of Attention ................................................181
Section II Design
6. Cognitive and Behavioral Actions as Basic Units
of Activity Analysis ...................................................................................193
6.1 Description and Classification of Cognitive Actions ...................193
6.1.1 Direct Connection Actions .................................................196
6.1.2 Mental Transformational Actions .....................................196
6.1.3 Higher-Order Transformational Actions .........................197
6.2 Principles of Cognitive Actions Extraction in Task Analysis .....199
6.3 Description of Motor Actions and the Time of Their
Performance .......................................................................................211
6.3.1 Other Method of Action Classification .............................218
6.4 MTM-1 and Strategies of Activity Performance ...........................221
7. Morphological Analysis of Work Activity during Performance
of Human–Computer Interaction Tasks ................................................243
7.1 Introduction to Morphological Analysis of Activity ...................243
7.2 Algorithmic Task Analysis versus Constraint-Based Approach ....248
Section III Q uantitative Assessment of Computer-Based Task
8. Quantitative Assessment of Task Complexity
Computer-Based Tasks ..............................................................................257
8.1 Analysis of Existing Method of Complexity Evaluation
of Computer-Based Tasks ................................................................257
8.2 Theoretical Principles for Evaluating the Complexity
of the Computer-Based Task ............................................................262
9. Complexity Evaluation: Practical Example............................................279
9.1 Basic Principles of Morphological Analysis
of Computer-Based Tasks ................................................................279
9.2 Extraction of Cognitive and Behavioral Actions from Eye
and Mouse Movement Data ............................................................285
