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Smartphone Use, Technology Affordance for Healthcare and Elders' Life Satisfaction
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Previous studies have examined how smartphones influence the life satisfaction of the elderly, but the existence of conflicting conclusions suggests the existence of a “black box”.
Wu Bao
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Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory
Social Media and Society, 2015 In this essay, we reconstruct a keyword for communication—affordance. Affordance, adopted from ecological psychology, is now widely used in technology studies, yet the term lacks a clear definition.
Gina Neff, Péter Nagy
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Form as Affordance: The Theoretical Basis and Conceptual Framework for the Meaning of Architecture [PDF]
صفه, 2022 Widely interpreted through different architectural discourses, form has emerged as a dynamic and slippery concept. Aiming at a rethinking of the concept in contemporary architectural discourse, the present paper explains theoretical bases and conceptual ...
samira adeli, Hadi nadimi
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Joint Object Affordance Reasoning and Segmentation in RGB-D Videos
IEEE Access, 2021 Understanding human-object interaction is a fundamental challenge in computer vision and robotics. Crucial to it is the ability to infer “object affordances” from visual data, namely the types of interaction supported by an object of ...
Spyridon Thermos +2 more
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Affordance in interaction [PDF]
Proceedings of the 13th Eurpoean conference on Cognitive ergonomics: trust and control in complex socio-technical systems, 2006 The concept of affordance has different interpretations in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). However, its treatment has been merely as a one-to-one relationship between a user and a technology. We believe that a broader view of affordances is needed which encompasses social and cultural aspects of our everyday life.
Dhaval Vyas +2 more
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Affordance Lost, Affordance Regained, and Affordance Surrendered [PDF]
, 2016 Informed by the ontology of becoming, this study explores technological affordances in the context of use of social media technologies where multiple human and material agents interact without necessarily being co-present. In such scenarios, tracing the relational configuration of social and material agents becomes a challenge.
Sharma, Divya +2 more
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Buildings, 2022 In recent years, researchers in the architecture field have explored VR technology for various purposes in the architectural design process. Current efforts have supported the growing knowledge of VR utilization, specifically for the architectural design
Fauzan Alfi Agirachman +3 more
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The Affordances of Broken Affordances [PDF]
, 2015 We consider the use of physical and virtual objects having one or more affordances associated to simple interactions with them. Based on Kaptelinin and Nardi’s notion of instrumental affordance, we investigate what it means to break an affordance, and the two ensuing questions we deem most important: how users may (i) achieve their goals in the ...
Grünbaum, Martin Gielsgaard +1 more
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How affordable is HUD affordable housing?
Housing Policy Debate, 2016 AbstractThis article assesses the affordability of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rental assistance properties from the perspective of transportation costs. HUD housing is, by definition, affordable from the standpoint of housing costs due to limits on the amounts renters are required to pay.
Shima Hamidi, Reid Ewing, John Renne
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Organizational Affordances: A Structuration Theory Approach to Affordances [PDF]
Interacting with Computers, 2016 Affordance is an important concept in the field of human-computer interaction. There are various interpretations of affordances, often extending the original notion of James J. Gibson. Often the treatment of affordances in the current human-computer interaction literature has been a one-to-one relationship between a user and an artefact.
Dhaval Vyas +2 more
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