Bedny Gregory, Karwowski Waldemar
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA.
Ergonomics. 2004 Feb 5;47(2):134-53. doi: 10.1080/00140130310001617921.
Activity theory has been successfully applied in diverse schools of psychology with particularly extensive work in the fields of education, ergonomics, human factors and industrial-organizational psychology. However, existing efforts of translation and formulation in English suffer from certain limitations. These limitations include the blurring between Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory of the development of mind and activity theory, the restriction of activity theory in its entirety to the version offered by Leont'ev, errors in the interpretation of some basic concept and terminology, reliance on studies that use obsolete methods, and failure to consider the Russian work in activity theory in its entirety. This last problem results in the omission of the recent advances in engineering psychology and educational psychology in the former Soviet Union that facilitates the application of activity theory to practical problems. This paper is a description of the evolution of basic theory, concepts and terminology relevant to practitioners--particularly in the field of ergonomics.
活动理论已成功应用于不同的心理学流派，在教育、人机工程学、人因学和工业组织心理学领域有特别广泛的研究。然而，现有的英文翻译和阐述工作存在一定局限性。这些局限性包括维果茨基的心智社会文化发展理论与活动理论之间的混淆、将活动理论整体局限于列昂捷夫提出的版本、对一些基本概念和术语的解释错误、依赖使用过时方法的研究，以及未能全面考虑俄罗斯在活动理论方面的著作。最后一个问题导致遗漏了前苏联工程心理学和教育心理学的最新进展，而这些进展有助于将活动理论应用于实际问题。本文描述了与从业者相关的基础理论、概念和术语的演变——特别是在人机工程学领域。
