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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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Canonical affordances in context [PDF]
Avant, 2012 James Gibson’s concept of affordances was an attempt to undermine the traditional dualism of the objective and subjective. Gibson himself insisted on the continuity of “affordances in general” and those attached to human artifacts.
Alan Costall
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Automatic Generation of Object Shapes With Desired Affordances Using Voxelgrid Representation
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2020 3D objects (artifacts) are made to fulfill functions. Designing an object often starts with defining a list of functionalities or affordances (action possibilities) that it should provide, known as functional requirements.
Mihai Andries +4 more
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What do aesthetic affordances afford?
Enrahonar. An international journal of theoretical and practical reason, 2022 This paper explores various notions of aesthetic affordance recently developed through embodied, situated and enactive approaches to aesthetic experience by Maria Brincker and Shaun Gallagher, and the similarities and differences between them and the idea of affective affordance put forward by Joel Krueger and Giovanna Colombetti.
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DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, 2023 This roundtable paper is part of the project ‘Digitized Love and Intimacy on Hinge.’ It aims to investigate how digital dating apps reconfigure cultural attitudes to love and intimacy and, conversely, how said attitudes influence digital dating practices.
Balázs Boross +5 more
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The Relationship Between Motor Development Affordances in the Home Environment and Executive Functions of 8 to 10-Year-Old Rural Children (With the Approach of the Effect of the Living Environmental Context) [PDF]
رشد و یادگیری حرکتی ورزشی, 2023 Introduction: Research evidence indicates that the environment is an important factor in improving children's development. However, little research has been done in the rural children population regarding the effect of motor affordances on cognitive ...
Zahra Fathirezaie +2 more
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Understanding social engagement in autism: Being different in perceiving and sharing affordances
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 In the current paper I will argue that the notion of affordances offers an alternative to theory of mind (ToM) approaches in studying social engagement in general and in explaining social engagement in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) specifically ...
Annika eHellendoorn
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Affordances of musical instruments: Conceptual consideration
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 While the concept of affordances has been applied in music research, it has not been satisfyingly developed regarding musical instruments. The resulting vagueness restricts the potential of the concept to guide exploration, discussion, and development of
Markus Tullberg
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Affordances theory in multilingualism studies
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012 The concept of affordances originating in Gibson’s work (Gibson, 1977) is gaining ground in multilingualism studies (cf. Aronin and Singleton, 2010; Singleton and Aronin, 2007; Dewaele, 2010). Nevertheless, studies investigating affordances in respect of
Larissa Aronin, David Singleton
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Social Media and Radicalization: An Affordance Approach for Cross-Platform Comparison
Medien & KommunikationswissenschaftTo accentuate which platform characteristics particularly foster radicalization and extremist dynamics, this contribution investigates the affordances of social media as delineated in contemporary literature, conducting a platform comparison encompassing
Heidi Schulze +3 more
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