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Affordable housing needs affordable transit [PDF]
Environment and Urbanization, 2018 This paper describes a proposal for affordable housing across all income groups on urbanizable mostly greenfield peri-urban sites served by a suburban railway station. Connecting to this arterial transit node, a bus rapid transit system (BRTS) of high frequency would provide a feeder service that penetrates areas too far to be otherwise easily reached
Shirish B Patel +2 more
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Disturbance of Ecological Self and Impairment of Affordance Perception
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Affordance, a radical concept James Gibson introduced in the 1970s, remains controversial today. Defined as environmental properties taken with reference to an animal’s anatomy and action capabilities, affordances are opportunities for action the ...
Nam-Gyoon Kim, Judith A. Effken
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Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory
Social Media + 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.
Peter Nagy, Gina Neff
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An inquiry into the certification potential of built environments’ affordance [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 Buildings are typically equipped with a number of elements and devices (e.g., windows, blinds, luminaires, radiators) to control indoor environmental conditions.
Mahdavi Ardeshir, Berger Christiane
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The concept of a structural affordance [PDF]
Avant, 2012 I provide an analysis of the concept of an “affordance” that enables one to conceive of “structural affordance” as a kind of affordance relation that might hold between an agent and its body.
Adrian Alsmith
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IEEE Access, 2020 Fine-grained affordance segmentation for object parts can greatly benefit robotics and scene understanding applications. In this work, we propose an instance-segmentation framework that can accurately localize functionality and affordance of individual ...
Mohammed Hassanin +2 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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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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What do aesthetic affordances afford?
Enrahonar. An international journal of theoretical and practical reason, 2022 This paper explores various notions of aesthetic affordance recently developed through embodied, situated and enactive approaches to aesthetic experience by Maria Brincker and Shaun Gallagher, and the similarities and differences between them and the idea of affective affordance put forward by Joel Krueger and Giovanna Colombetti.
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Data Science and Management, 2023 In e-commerce live streaming, sellers choose the most suitable streamers to endorse their products. The streamer introduces the main functions of the goods, organizes marketing activities, improves the consumers’ shopping experience, and finally ...
Yunfan Lu, Yucheng He, Yifei Ke
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