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ICT multimedia learning affordances: role and impact on ESL learners' writing accuracy development

open access: yesHeliyon, 2021
This work examined the role and impact of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) tools such as YouTube as an open educational resource-cum-tool with respect to its affordances of captions and their adjustable settings like font size and color (i.
Azzam Alobaid
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Dynamics of Affordances and Implications for Design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Affordance is an important concept in HCI. There are various interpretations of affordances but it has been difficult to use this concept for design purposes.
Chisalita, Christina M.   +2 more
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“We’re Seeking Relevance”: Qualitative Perspectives on the Impact of Learning Analytics on Teaching and Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Whilst a significant body of learning analytics research tends to focus on impact from the perspective of usability or improved learning outcomes, this paper proposes an approach based on Affordance Theory to describe awareness and intention as a bridge ...
AL Dyckhoff   +8 more
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Stable and variable affordances are both automatic and flexible

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
The mere observation of pictures or words referring to manipulable objects is sufficient to evoke their affordances since objects and their nouns elicit components of appropriate motor programs associated with object interaction. While nobody doubts that
Anna M Borghi, Lucia eRiggio
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Evaluation of anthropomorphic feedback for an online auction and affordances [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper describes an experiment investigating the effectiveness and user satisfaction of using anthropomorphic feedback at the user interface. The context chosen was online bidding due to this kind of activity being very much used in current times
Holt, PO, Murano, P
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Review of Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumacı (Duke University Press)

open access: yesLateral
Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumacı builds upon theories of affordances through the concept of “activist affordances,” which describes the “performative microacts/-arts through which disabled ...
Emalee Crews
doaj   +1 more source

Magnetic and multistable: reinterpreting the affordances of educational technology

open access: yesInternational Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2018
The concept of affordances has become a popular analytical tool in educational technology. The present article, however, argues that the current understanding of affordances does not adequately address the use of educational technology and instead ...
Jesper Aagaard
doaj   +1 more source

Affording illusions? Natural Information and the Problem of Misperception [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
There are two related points at which J.J. Gibson’s ecological theory of visual perception remains remarkably underspecified: Firstly, the notion of information for perception is not explicated in much detail beyond the claim that it “specifies” the ...
Greif, Hajo
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Laajennetun todellisuuden tarjoumat tekniselle viestinnälle – kohti teoreettista mallia [PDF]

open access: yesVAKKI Publications, 2019
This article is part of a research project that explores the use of eXtended Reality (XR) technology and applications to convey technical guidance instead of traditional printed manuals.
Satu Rantakokko, Anita Nuopponen
doaj  

Boundaryless Twitter Use: On the Affordances of Social Media

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2020
For this study, we followed the director general (DG) of a large Swedish public authority on Twitter. We analyzed the data from Twitter and from interviews in terms of four affordances that distinguish social media from more traditional technologies ...
Steffi Siegert   +2 more
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