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Study of Affordances of iPads and Teachers’ Private Theories [PDF]

International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 2012
Post-PC TouchPad mobile devices are increasingly being used in educational contexts. Growing investment is planned by higher education institutions in Hong Kong and by the HKSAR Education Bureau in relation to educational uses of TouchPad technology. However, current research into educational applications of this technology is limited.
Churchill, D, King, M, Fox, RMK
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Is an Apple an Orange? A Large Language Model Benchmark for Candidate Term Extraction and Subclass Decisions Against Upper Ontologies in Engineering and Materials Science

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Building machine‐readable vocabularies for materials science is slow, expert‐driven work. This study benchmarks 13 large language models on two of its first steps: finding candidate terms in engineering articles and deciding where they belong in a class hierarchy.
Thomas Bjarsch, Maximilian Holland, Klaus Drechsler, Johannes Schilp   +3 more
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Agentic social affordance framework (ASAF): agent identity design as a collaboration interface in multi-agent systems

Frontiers in Computer Science
As AI systems evolve from single conversational agents to complex multi-agent architectures, a critical design dimension has been overlooked: how the social identity of individual agents shapes human behavior within the collaboration.
Meng-Han Lee
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Action Possibilities Enhancing the Spiritual Wellbeing of Young Children: Applying Affordance Theory to the Godly Play Room

Religions, 2022
Godly Play is an approach to religious education for young children between the ages of three and eight. The Godly Play room, modelled on Montessori’s prepared environment, provides opportunities for young children to respond to Sacred stories, Parables ...
Brendan Hyde
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The theory of affordances

, 2016
In the last decade, the term “affordance,” coined by the ecological psychologist James Gibson (1986), has become a buzzword in CALL research. Often used to denote possibilities offered by technologies, the concept has been imported into CALL from cognate domains, such as human-computer Interaction (HCI). However, the CALL community has yet to engage in
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Discrepancies Between Micro Versus Macroscale Viscoelastic Properties in a Microplastic‐Tissue Composite Model

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This study explores the discrepancies between bulk mechanics and spatial mapping in a tissue‐mimetic hydrogel model. Microplastic particles create localized stiff mechanical microenvironments that are detectable by cellular‐scale nanoindentation but leave bulk properties unchanged as measured by rheology.
Ahron T. Verschleisser, Baptiste Le Roi, Omri Leshem, Joshua M. Grolman   +3 more
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Elastic–Plastic Modeling and Experimental Characterization of Granular Jamming Actuators

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Granular jamming enables rapid switching between soft and rigid mechanical states. Here, a reduced‐order elastic‐perfectly‐plastic beam framework captures pressure‐dependent loading, unloading, residual deformation, and hysteresis in jammed beams, while matching three‐point bending experiments across materials and geometries. The framework links design
Saheli Patel, Prashant K. Purohit, Jordan R. Raney   +2 more
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How do students seek feedback in the generative AI era? Exploring the role of generative AI affordances and social motivations

Cogent Education
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping students’ feedback-seeking behavior (FSB) in higher education through its capacity for adaptive content generation and immersive collaborative dialogue.
Huimin Wang, Dadi Zeng, Hongjian Liao
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Coordinated Architectural and Chemical Reinforcement in the Crushing Mandible of a Soldier Termite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The crushing mandible of a soldier termite withstands substantial biting loads despite lacking mineral. Its cuticle is partitioned: convex teeth pair hardness and zinc enrichment with aligned chitin fibers for contact durability, while stiffer concave regions between teeth carry bending loads.
Andrew Tran Nguyen, Patryk Wąsik, Juan Fernando Cucuyame Morales, Marie Kate Palau, Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas, Phani Saketh Dasika, Jin Hee Kim, Radhika Laxminarayana, Eric Hintsala, Greta Chang, Junzhi Liao, Lizhi Sun, Nathan Lord, Atsushi Arakaki, Paul Bardunias, Pablo Zavattieri, David Kisailus   +16 more
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Gradient‐Conductivity Architecture Enables Synchronous Enhancement of Sensitivity and Detection Range in Multifunctional All‐Paper Sensors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A gradient‐engineered all‐paper sensor is fabricated by integrating MXene and in situ grown AgNPs within hierarchical cellulose networks. The device breaks the sensitivity–detection range trade‐off through cascaded conductive pathways, enabling ultrahigh pressure sensitivity, humidity–pressure decoupled dual‐mode sensing, and outstanding EMI shielding,
Ao Li, Jun Xu, Dezhong Xu, Zhaohui Zhang, Jiyi Li, Daxian Cao, Kefu Chen, Mizi Fan   +7 more
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