COMPUTATIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ACTIVITIES

Peter Bøgh Andersen

2007

Abstract

Mobile and context-aware technology enables new activity-centred ways of using digital technology that require systematic methods for representing actions and activities computationally. The paper uses findings from ethnography, linguistics and philosophy to paint a generic portrait of activities, and suggests ways of representing it in an object-oriented framework. The paper makes a sharp distinction between the representation and the represented. The representations are not activities, they only represent them.

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Bøgh Andersen P. (2007). COMPUTATIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ACTIVITIES . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-90-0, pages 95-104. DOI: 10.5220/0002347600950104


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Peter Bøgh Andersen},
title={COMPUTATIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ACTIVITIES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={95-104},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002347600950104},
isbn={978-972-8865-90-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - COMPUTATIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ACTIVITIES
SN - 978-972-8865-90-0
AU - Bøgh Andersen P.
PY - 2007
SP - 95
EP - 104
DO - 10.5220/0002347600950104