The situated acceptance of ICT in/for the activity: Towards a clinical use

The aim of this paper is to consider that a complementary way to evaluate the acceptance of technology in the work is possible; the acceptance situated. From a critical review of the classical models of acceptability (social and practical) on the one hand, and relying on models of the activity and theories of appropriation on the other hand, we show that it is necessary to insert the ICT in its social thickness, that is to say in a more comprehensive and complex as richer activity system (real). We will discuss the four dimensions to be considered to evaluate this acceptance situated. We also indicate how this approach can become an instrument of the development of activity and can contribute to a process of (re) creation of technical instruments, laying the foundations of what we have named a clinical usage. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS on behalf of Association internationale de psychologie du travail de langue francaise (AIPTLF).