This paper proposes an interdisciplinary approach aimed to bring into practice some novel Software Engineering theoretical paradigms. The premise of these news paradigms is based on the idea “ecologies” as realities that take place in environment a product. These are understood tight but flexible interactions between human, social, and technical components involved, where just another component...

Collaboration at work is a key component for activities in complex socio-technical systems. Reviewing the scientific literature showed that collaborative activity has been well characterized, showing perspective-taking crucial feature, but no study quantifies what makes performance of activity. Analyzing during inevitably refers to Cognitive Task Analysis paradigm (CTA). Based on digital ethnog...

In this paper we present a new theory for the coordination of human activity, the Activity Domain Theory. Human activity is seen in the light of cooperating practices which need to be coordinated. The central idea in the theory is to integrate coordinating elements of a practice into a coherent whole which we call the activity domain. The ontological foundation of the theory is the praxis philo...