The emotional dimension in activity theory

The emotional dimension in activity theory

Rodrigues, Laís; Campello, Silvio Barreto

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This study aimed to highlight the importance of emotion in the process of cognition necessary to carry out a particular activity, proposing to reaffirm in practice, the thesis of the inseparability of the cognitive and the affective composition of consciousness. Emphasizing the theoretical dimension of this emotional on activity theory of Leontiev, aims to demonstrate, then, the possible contribution of this relationship for the development of projects in design. This new vision about product development, brings to light the current design, a new culture projetual with investigation procedures and approaches increasingly concerned with the intended users, observing the user-product relationship from the perspective of cultural conformation in which that individual and their artifacts are inserted. Thus, the mode of action and the way of perceiving the world are internalized according to a social structure acquired over the personal history of each subject and it is this social dynamic that makes objects translators of its principles.

This study aimed to highlight the importance of emotion in the process of cognition necessary to carry out a particular activity, proposing to reaffirm in practice, the thesis of the inseparability of the cognitive and the affective composition of consciousness. Emphasizing the theoretical dimension of this emotional on activity theory of Leontiev, aims to demonstrate, then, the possible contribution of this relationship for the development of projects in design. This new vision about product development, brings to light the current design, a new culture projetual with investigation procedures and approaches increasingly concerned with the intended users, observing the user-product relationship from the perspective of cultural conformation in which that individual and their artifacts are inserted. Thus, the mode of action and the way of perceiving the world are internalized according to a social structure acquired over the personal history of each subject and it is this social dynamic that makes objects translators of its principles.

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DOI: 10.5151/designpro-CIDI-39

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Rodrigues, Laís; Silvio Romero Botelho Barreto Campello; "The emotional dimension in activity theory", p-435-440. In: In Coutinho, Solange G.; Moura, Monica; Campello, Silvio Barreto; Cadena, Renata A.; Almeida, Swanne (orgs.). Proceedings of the 6th Information Design International Conference, 5th InfoDesign, 6th CONGIC [= Blucher Design Proceedings, num.2, vol.1]. São Paulo: Blucher, 2014.
ISSN 23186968, DOI 10.5151/designpro-CIDI-39