Most importantly, however, activity theory helps technology developers build relationships with the people whose work they seek to impact: as Kuutti points out, activity theory "…aims at reconstructing contexts in practice so that people are not just objects or subordinate parts, but regain their role as creators" [43].
To redefine, or reconstruct by context, culture and space -- what this word means to us when spoken by us?
We therefore attempted to minimise these limitations by examining the clinicians in real-life situations rather than a laboratory, and avoiding data that were collected for other reasons (eg, litigation), 17 interviews tried to reconstruct the context in which error took place.
In this work we attempt to reconstruct a context for the migration of a culturally defined and highly endogamous group of priestly families carrying the rare haplotype "LPKSTR," defined as R1a1 Y-HG individuals carrying the STR profile: DYS456 < 16, DYS458 > 15, and GATAH4 > 12. LPKSTR individuals listed in public databases also carry the SNPs Z93 and L342.2.
Mr. Wapshott, a Reuters contributing columnist and a former senior editor at The Times of London, skillfully reconstructs the context in which Keynes formulated his theory.
Several scenarios can lead to the same observations and, without the possibility of reconstructing the context, could lead to a number of possible interpretations.
Mr. Ginzburg accuses the Italian judges of acting like historians, trying to reconstruct the political context of the crime rather than limiting themselves to the evidence before them.
Boisserie helped preserve a chunk of the past Hippopotamidae record and reconstruct the environmental context in which Ar. ramidus lived some 4.4 million years ago, a contribution that made him a co-author of one of the 11 Ardi papers.
To simulate motion, the speed and trajectories are crucial to creating realistic acoustical environments, and developing signal processing methods for reconstructing these contexts is a great challenge.
Of course, these are the meals in which I'm able to reconstruct some kind of context.
A future case study of Borana women of northern Kenya will address these questions by broadly situating their experiences in social, economic and political changes and, most importantly, in the Borana cultural context to reconstruct women's roles in post-colonial era.
