There are not many references in Ed's book. Over a period of years here
in the "pre-cog sci" days when the Center For Human Information Processing
was the leading venue for such discussions, the CHIP folks beat heavily
on Gibsonian ideas. But over time, in part because of the influence of
Ed and perhaps of me, Don Norman started to take a more congenial view
toward artifact mediation. Gerry Balzano, who has worked on event perception,
was also a participant in these discussions.
A little later, Ed bumped into the functional systems ideas in conjunction
with AR Luria's writings, and perhaps Anokhin/Leontiev, perhaps in
discussions with Yrjo Engestrom.
In any event, for quite a while these apparently-connected ways of thinking
have rattled around parts of the UCSD world, where Ed has put them together
in his own, very exciting, ways.
That's my 3cent history-- certainly incomplete but hopefully not misleading.
mike