Object of Activity and Individual Motivation

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Reflection in teacher education (2007, background): “The notion of the object of the activity (Leont’ev, 1978 ; Miettinen, 2005 ; Stetsenko, 2005 ) is helpful in making this distinction.”
The Role of Affect in Creative Projects and Exploratory Search (2007, unknown): “As concerns the situational factors shaping the individual’s affective response, research in the activity theory tradition shows the motivating effects of a shared object of collective activity (Leont’ev, 1978; Engestrom, 1987; Miettinen, 2005) as does related work by Knorr Cetina on the motivating ”
Understanding the Role of Objects in Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration (2012, background): “…because it is composed of heterogeneous elements (each rooted in a different professional practice and discourse), the object is inherently multiple and may hold together orientations, interests and interpretations that are potentially contradictory (Miettinen 2005; Miettinen and Virkkunen 2005).”
Confronting Analytical Dilemmas for Understanding Complex Human Interactions in Design-Based Research From a Cultural—Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) Framework (2007, methodology): “In these situations I relied on Rogoff's (1995) three planes of CHAT analyses to unpack the unit of analysis associated with the subject.”