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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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What is an affordance and can it help us understand the use of ICT in education? [PDF]
, 2010 This paper revisits the concept of affordance and explores its contribution to an understanding of the use of ICT for teaching and learning. It looks at Gibson‟s original idea of affordance and at some of the difficulties long associated with the use of ...
Hammond, Michael
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What can you do with a rock? Affordance extraction via word embeddings [PDF]
, 2017 Autonomous agents must often detect affordances: the set of behaviors enabled by a situation. Affordance detection is particularly helpful in domains with large action spaces, allowing the agent to prune its search space by avoiding futile behaviors ...
Fulda, Nancy +3 more
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Human-Machine Communication Journal, 2020 The term affordance has been inconsistently applied both in robotics and communication. While the robotics perspective is mostly object-based, the communication science view is commonly user-based.
Carmina Rodríguez-Hidalgo
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Hardware-Aware Affordance Detection for Application in Portable Embedded Systems
IEEE Access, 2021 Affordance detection in computer vision allows segmenting an object into parts according to functions that those parts afford. Most solutions for affordance detection are developed in robotics using deep learning architectures that require substantial ...
Edoardo Ragusa +3 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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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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Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: an Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past [PDF]
, 2014 Heritage has been defined differently in European contexts. Despite differences, a common challenge for historic urban landscape management is the integration of tangible and intangible heritage. Integration demands an active view of perception and human-
Alves, Susana
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