Incorporating General Systems Theory to help Analyse and Understand a Collaborating Group's Dynamics
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ABSTRACT:
The original Vygotsky model of human activity introduced the idea of subjects achieving their objective via artefacts, which others developed to include collective activity. See [Engeström98] for a historical overview. More recently, Cole & Engeström have updated this model to reflect current thinking including the incorporation of cultural diversity, history and multiple perspectives with some notion of feedback [Cole93]. We have taken Activity Theory, and incorporated the ideas of feedback from General Systems Theory to develop a framework which allows us to describe and analyse collaborating groups, and design flexible tools for such groups which they can appropriate and evolve. Bertalanffy's seminal work on General Systems Theory was a key development for the theory [Von Bertalanffy76] as was Ashby's work on the introduction to cybernetics [Ashby64]. A modern social science interpretation can be found in [Hanson95].
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