Inventing New Uses For Tools: A Cognitive Foundation For Studies On Appropriation

Appropriation refers to the processes that take place when new uses are invented for tools and when these uses develop into practices and start spreading within a user community. Most research in human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work to date has studied this phenom...

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Main Author: Antti Salovaara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre of Sociological Research, Szczecin, Poland 2008-01-01
Series:Human Technology
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Online Access:http://humantechnology.jyu.fi/articles/volume4/2008/salovaara.pdf