What are the affordances of information and communication technologies? [PDF]
Research in Learning Technology, 2004 The paper examines the notion that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have affordances that epitomize the features of our late modern age (Giddens, 1991) and explores whether these affordances (Salomon, 1993, p.
Grainne Conole, Martin Dyke
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Exploring Common and Novel Actualized Affordances of Fitbit: Mixed Methods Study
JMIR Human FactorsBackgroundAlthough fitness apps could promote healthier lifestyles, evidence on the effectiveness of app-based interventions remains inconsistent.
Moayad Alshawmar +5 more
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Personality-Driven Variations in Fitness App Affordance Actualization Among Adults: Quantitative Survey Study [PDF]
JMIR Formative ResearchBackgroundFitness apps aim to advance individuals’ health and wellness by encouraging consistent healthy habits. Despite their widespread use, sustaining user engagement remains a challenge.
Moayad Alshawmar +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Knowledge collaboration is the result of knowledge transfer and social interaction among users on knowledge platforms, and its formation mechanism has attracted much attention.
Zeyu Jiao, Chang Li, Jianbin Chen
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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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Addressing gendered affordances of the platform economy: the case of UpWork
Internet Policy Review, 2022 This study investigates UpWork affordances and their implications for female freelancers experiencing different forms of cyberviolence. Building up on a theoretical framework to situate the concept of affordances, gendered affordances and cyberviolence ...
Elisabetta Stringhi
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CHAT framework to study affordances in CALL environments
The EUROCALL Review, 2021 This paper proposes to explore the theory of affordances in the light of cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) to study affordances in complex Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) environments.
Aparajita Dey-Plissonneau
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Being Perceived and Being “Seen”: Interpersonal Affordances, Agency, and Selfhood
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Are interpersonal affordances a distinct type of affordance, and if so, what is it that differentiates them from other kinds of affordances? In this paper, I show that a hard distinction between interpersonal affordances and other affordances is ...
Nick Brancazio
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Examining the Affordances of an Online Learning Platform: A Usefulness Theoretical Perspective
SAGE Open, 2023 This study examined the affordances of an online learning platform used in a Chinese university for online teaching and learning during the pandemic period.
Sijia Xue +2 more
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An “in vivo” analysis of crafts practices and creativity—Why affordances provide a productive lens
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Scholars are increasingly recognizing that creativity is grounded in the active sensorimotor engagement with the environment and materiality. Affordances—recognizable pointers to action opportunities in the ecology—provide a helpful prism for analyzing ...
Michael Kimmel, Camilla Groth
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