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Media Theory, 2019 Based on the author’s keynote lecture at the 2018 ‘Rethinking Affordance’ symposium (Stuttgart, Germany), this essay offers a comprehensive survey of the tensions between J.J. Gibson’s and Don Norman’s perspectives on the concept of affordance,
Olia Lialina
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Student engagement extends beyond simple attendance. Across 891 bioscience students from three universities, attendance behaviour was associated mainly with structural influences, whereas classroom spatial behaviour reflected affective and sensory factors.
Nigel Page +4 more
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Digital HealthObjective The study aims to investigate how wearable fitness devices (WFDs) influence health-promoting behavior in the Chinese context, particularly by examining two distinct affordances—health technician affordance and health consultant affordance ...
Guoping He, Wenlu He, Fei Qiao
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Ethical Foreground and Background in Adult Educator Work
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Adult educators work in a complex ethical environment. The very act of contributing to the learning of another is fraught with moral overtones. In this paper we consider the ethical dimensions of adult educator practice by distinguishing the ethical features of the context or ‘background’ of practice from the ethical capabilities and decision ...
Steven Hodge, Sonal Nakar
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Beyond Suvin: Rethinking Cognitive Estrangement
Between, 2022 This article proposes a reconceptualization of Darko Suvin’s notion of cognitive estrangement through affordance theory. Specifically, science-fictional estrangement is redescribed as the creation of fictional world-affordances imbued with cognitive ...
Simona Bartolotta
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Building on our prior Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System analysis identifying adults aged 18–39 as the primary driver of the national increase in self‐reported cognitive disability, we examined factors associated with this rise using 2013–2024 U.S. BRFSS data. Methods We analyzed U.S.
Adam de Havenon +9 more
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The impact of mHealth apps’ affordance on consumers’ novel food purchasing decisions
Data Science and ManagementMobile health apps (MHAs) provide users with exercise support and dietary recommendations. They also suggest a wide range of novel foods. However, some users may face food neophobia, a reluctance to try unfamiliar foods, as well as the “omnivore’s ...
Yunfan Lu +3 more
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Media Theory, 2019 This article introduces the special issue 'Rethinking Affordance'.
Ashley Scarlett, Martin Zeilinger
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Glucagon‐Like Peptide‐1 Receptor Agonists in Multiple Sclerosis: A Topical Narrative Review
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The glucagon‐like peptide‐1 (GLP‐1) receptor agonists (RAs) are a relatively new class of drugs that were initially approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and, subsequently, weight reduction in patients with obesity.
Audrey Y. Chang, Farrah J. Mateen
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Biofunctional Understanding and Judgment of Size
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Research has shown that the meaningfulness of the material increases judged size, whereas symmetry decreases size judgments. These findings have been interpreted in terms of information processing, with a greater quantity of information leading to a ...
Zheng Jin +4 more
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