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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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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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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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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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Affording mobility: Attending to the socio-material affordances of transport un/affordability
Journal of Transport Geography, 2023 The affordability of transport is a long-standing concern of both transport and economic geography. However, despite the growing influence of relational and heterodox economic thinking in a range of geographic sub-disciplines, the cost of transport is still largely conceptualised in universalising, binary, and purely quantitative terms, as either ...
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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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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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, 2009 The workshop "Touch Affordances" addresses a concept relevant to human computer interactions based on touch. The main topic is the challenge of applying the notion of affordances to domains related to touch interactions (e.g. (multi)touch screens, RFID & NFC, ubiquitous interfaces).
Slegers, Karin +2 more
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