Dear Air'ers - Yeah I can't agree more! As the first book I read on this topic was Norman & Draper (ed) User-centered computer activity. (1985) I think that is the right title. Jenny Preece has a great review of HCI in her book, Introduction to HCI, (or HCi: an Introduction) Open University Press, (1994?) but there is a second edition. Good place to start to get all the theory mapped out, as there's a great deal of difference between the psychologists, the cognitive psychologists, the social cognitivists, the distributed cognitivists, the social interactionists, the cognitive engineers, the human activity theory people, the human physiologists, the interface theorists (Nardi, Bodker) the AI'ers, etc. Possibly why the AoIR'ers stay away? is there's a HUGE literature there, very very rich in implications for all forms of computer-related activity, network or individual user base - in particular, I'd like to think that most members of AoIR have, or at least see the need for, a good understanding of single user activity via the HCI literature and bring that understanding through to inteactivity via CSCW and then to interactivity at the network level . . . . Cheers, Denise ===== "The distance between here and there is growing; and getting even larger as we speak" (S. S. Hall) Denise N. Rall, PhD student, School of EnvironSciMgmt, Southern Cross Uni, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/