Bonnie Nardi is an anthropologist best known as the lead author of Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart (Nardi & O'Day 1998). She is also well known for her work on activity theory. She is a full professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to that, she worked at AT&T; Labs, Agilent, and Apple labs. She is considered a pioneer among anthropologists who are employed by high-tech companies ...
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Bonnie Nardi is an anthropologist best known as the lead author of Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart (Nardi & O'Day 1998). She is also well known for her work on activity theory. She is a full professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to that, she worked at AT&T; Labs, Agilent, and Apple labs. She is considered a pioneer among anthropologists who are employed by high-tech companies to examine consumers' behavior in their homes and offices .
Her interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Computer supported cooperative work, more specifically in activity theory, computer-mediated communication, and interaction design. Prof. Nardi has researched CSCW applications and blogging, and has more recently pioneered the study of World of Warcraft in HCI. She has studied the use of technology in offices, hospitals, schools, libraries and laboratories.
She is widely known among librarians - especially research,...
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