La Teoría de la actividad en el estudio del comportamiento informacional humano: consideraciones fundamentales

Abstract

This article portraits potentialities on how the Activity Theory can be applied to the information behavior studies, offering an extensive batch of arguments and reasons that justify this proposal, in virtue of getting a more comprehensive understanding of the different ways through which individuals seek, search, retrieve and make use of the information they need, by also using a transdisciplinary approach that strengthens this view. An exhaustive bibliographic and document review was made in order to see the conceptual onset and the theoretical-methodological evolution of human information behavior, underlining the advantageous utility of historical-cultural focus on which Activity Theory stands, so that a better understanding of individuals’ info-searching can be gotten, through the three-pieces set of activity-actions-operations (components of human activity). In this sense is showed the expediency of such insights, poorly explored by informative systems to comprehend and attend to their users.