A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF USERS' INTERACTIONS WITH AN ARTIFACT: STUDYING LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS WITH TECHNOLOGY.

Technology as a cognitive tool helps students to externalize their internal representations and take actions on them in dynamic, interactive environments. In this study, the instrumental approach provided a conceptual lens to analyze the students' introductory interactions with an artifact in a technological environment. The results highlighted various aspects of the instrumental approach such as various instrumentation and instrumentalization instances via different utilization and instrumented action schemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]