Books

Kaptelinin, V. and Nardi, B. (2006). Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Nardi, B. and O’Day, V. (1999). Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Nardi, B., Editor. (1996). Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Nardi, B. (1993). A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Special Issues of Journals

Jones, M., Nardi, B. and Mynatt, E. (2005). Social Impacts of Technology. A special issue of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 12 (2).

Nardi, B. and Redmiles, D. (2002). Activity Theory and the Practice of Design. A special issue of The Journal of Computer-supported Cooperative Work 11 ( 1-2).

Nardi, B. and Y. Engeström. (1998). A Web on the Wind: The Structure of Invisible Work. A special issue of The Journal of Computer-supported Cooperative Work 8 (1-2). Introduction to the issue.

Journal Articles, Peer-reviewed

Learning Conversations in World of Warcraft (2007)

Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of Warcraft (2006)

Nardi, B. (2005). Beyond bandwidth: Dimensions of connection in interpersonal interaction. The Journal of Computer-supported Cooperative Work 14: 91-130.

Nardi, B. (2005). Objects of desire: Power and passion in collaborative activity. Journal of Mind, Culture and Activity 12: 37-51.

Nardi, B., Schiano, D., Gumbrecht, M., and Swartz, L. (2004). Why We Blog. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery. December. Pp. 41-46.

Nardi, B., Whittaker, S., Isaacs, E., Creech, M., Johnson, J., and Hainsworth, J. (2002). ContactMap: Integrating communication and information through visualizing personal social networks. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery. April. Pp. 89-95. For a visual, see this picture.

Nardi, B., Whittaker, S. and Schwarz, H. (2002). NetWORKers and their activity in intensional networks. The Journal of Computer-supported Cooperative Work 11: 205-242.

Nardi, B., Miller, J. and Wright D. (1998). Collaborative, programmable intelligent agents. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery. March. Pp. 96-104.

Nardi, B. (1996). Concepts of cognition and consciousness: Four voices. Australian Journal of Information Systems 4: 64–69. Reprinted in ACM Journal of Computer Documentation, February, 1998.

Nardi, B. and O'Day, V. (1996). Intelligent agents: What we learned at the library. Libri 46: 59–88.

Nardi, B. and Reilly, B. (1996). Interactive ethnography: Beyond being there. Innovation 15: 11-16.

Nardi, B., Kuchinsky, A., Whittaker, S., Leichner, R. and Schwarz, H. (1996). Video-as-data: Technical and social aspects of a collaborative multimedia application. Journal of Computer-supported Cooperative Work 4: 73–100. Reprinted in Video-mediated Communication, K. Finn, A. Sellen and S. Wilbur (eds.) 1997, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Johnson, J. and Nardi, B. (1996). Creating presentation slides: A study of user preferences for task-specific vs generic application software. Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 3: 1–51.

Nardi, B. and Zarmer, C. (1993). Beyond models and metaphors: Visual formalisms in user interface design. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 4: 5–33. Best Paper Award at Hawaii International Conference of Systems Science, January, 1993 for previous version.

Johnson, J., Nardi, B., Zarmer, C. and Miller, J. (1993). ACE: A new approach to building interactive graphical applications. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery. January. Pp. 40–55.

Nardi, B. and Miller, J. (1991). Twinkling lights and nested loops: Distributed problem solving and spreadsheet development. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 34: 161–184. Reprinted in S. Greenberg (ed.) Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Groupware. Academic Press, London, 1991. Reprinted in Readings in Groupware and Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Ron Baecker (ed.) 1993, San Mateo CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

Nardi, B. (1983). Goals in reproductive decision making. American Ethnologist 3: 697–714.

Nardi, B. (1981). Modes of explanation in anthropological population theory. American Anthropologist 83: 28–56.

Conference Proceedings Papers, Peer-reviewed

Nardi, B., Schiano, Kallinikos, J. (2007). Opening the Black Box of Digital Technologies: Mods in World of Warcraft

Nardi, B., Zimmerman, A. (2006). Whither or Whether HCI: Requirements Analysis for Multi-Sited, Multi-User Cyberinfrastructures

Nardi, B., Schiano, D. and Gumbrecht, M. (2004). Blogging as social activity, or, Would you let 900 million people read your diary? Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. New York: ACM Press. Pp. 222-228.

Nardi, B., Whittaker, S. and Bradner, E. (2000). Interaction and outeraction: Instant messaging in action. Proceedings Conference on Computer-supported Cooperative Work. New York: ACM Press. Pp. 79-88.

Nardi, B., Anderson, K. and Erickson, T. (1995). Filing and finding computer files. Proceedings East-West Conference on Human Computer Interaction. Moscow, Russia. July 4–8. Pp. 162–179.

Nardi, B. and Johnson, J. (1994). User preferences for task-specific vs. generic application software. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems. New York: ACM Press. Pp. 392–398.

Nardi , B., Schwarz, H., Kuchinsky, A., Leichner, R., Whittaker, S. and Sclabassi, R. (1993). Turning away from talking heads: Video-as-data in neurosurgery. Proceedings InterCHI 93. New York: ACM. Pp. 327–334. Reprinted in S. Emmott (ed). Information Superhighways. London: Academic Press.

Nardi, B. (1992). Studying context: A comparison of activity theory, situated action models and distributed cognition. Proceedings East-West Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. August 4–8, St. Petersburg, Russia. Pp. 352–359.

Gantt, M. and Nardi, B. (1992). Gardeners and gurus: Patterns of collaboration among CAD users. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems. Pp. 107–117.

Nardi, B. and Miller, J. (1990). The spreadsheet interface: A basis for end user programming. Proceedings Interact'90. Pp. 977–983.

Nardi, B. and Miller J. (1990). An ethnographic study of distributed problem solving in spreadsheet development Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Pp. 197–208.

Ciccarelli, E. and Nardi, B. (1988). Browsing schematics: Query-filtered graphs with context nodes. Proceedings Second Annual Workshop on Space Operations, Automation and Robotics. Pp. 193–204.

Nardi, B. and Simons, R. (1986). Model-based reasoning and AI problem solving. Proceedings Conference on High Level Tools for Knowledge-based Systems. Pp. 56-68.

Book Chapters, Peer -reviewed

Fisher, D. and Nardi, B. (2006). Soylent and ContactMap: Tools for constructing the social workscape. Forthcoming in Integrated Workscapes. M. Czerwinski and V. Kaptelinin (eds.) Cambridge: MIT Press.

O’Day, V. and Nardi, B. (2003). An ecological perspective on digital libraries. In Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation. A. Bishop, B. Butterfield and N. Van House (eds.) Cambridge: MIT Press. Pp. 65-84.

Nardi, B. and Whittaker, S. (2002). The place of face to face communication in distributed work. In Distributed Work. P. Hinds and S. Kiesler (eds.) Cambridge: MIT Press.

Nardi, B. (2001). A cultural ecology of nanotechnology. In Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. M. Roco and W. Bainbridge (eds.) Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Lieberman, H., Nardi, B. and Wright, D. (2001). Training agents to recognize text by example. In Your Wish is My Command. H. Lieberman (ed.) San Francisco: Morgan Kauffman. Pp. 343-361.

Nardi, B. (1997). The use of ethnographic methods in design and evaluation. In M. Helander, T. Landauer and P. Prabhu (eds.) Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction II. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science. Pp. 361–366.

Nardi, B. (1995). Some reflections on scenarios. In J. Carroll (ed). Scenarios as Design Representations. London: Academic Press. Pp. 335-351.

Nardi, B. and Paulson, E. (1987). Multiple worlds with truth maintenance in AI applications. In B. DuBoulay, D. Hogg and L. Steels (eds.) Advances in Artificial Intelligence-II. Amsterdam: North Holland Press. Pp. 563–572.

Nardi, B. (1985). Infant feeding and women's work in Western Samoa. In L. Marshall (ed). Infant Care and Feeding in the South Pacific. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. Pp. 293–306.

Nardi, B. (1980). Use of computer simulation for predicting sociocultural change. In Predicting Sociocultural Change. S. Abbot and J. van Willigen (eds). Athens: University of Georgia Press. Pp. 38–56.

Professional Magazines

Kaptelinin, V., Nardi, B. and Macaulay, C. (1999). The Activity Checklist: A tool for representing the "space" of context. interactions magazine, July. Pp. 27-39.

Barreau, D. and Nardi, B. (1995). Finding and reminding: File organization from the desktop. SIGCHI Bulletin 27: 39–43.

CD-ROM

Nardi, B. and Reilly, B. (1996). Digital Photography at Lincoln High: An Interactive Ethnography.

Opinion/Essay

Nardi, B., O'Day, V. and Valauskas, E. (1996). Put a Good Librarian, Not Software, in Driver's Seat. Christian Science Monitor, June 4. Winner of the 1996. Special Libraries Association Media Award.