An Enactive-Ecological Approach to Information and Uncertainty [PDF]
, 2020 Information is a central notion for cognitive sciences and neurosciences, but there is no agreement on what it means for a cognitive system to acquire information about its surroundings.
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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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Dynamics of Affordances and Implications for Design [PDF]
, 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]
, 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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ICT multimedia learning affordances: role and impact on ESL learners' writing accuracy development
Heliyon, 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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Studying web 2.0 interactivity: a research framework and two case studies [PDF]
, 2012 With more than one third of the world’s population being online, the Internet has increasingly become part of modern living, giving rise to popular literature that often takes a teleological and celebratory perspective, heralding the Internet and Web 2.0
De Marez, Lieven, Mechant, Peter
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Designing products with a focus on self-explanatory assembly, a case study [PDF]
, 2019 Designing products with a focus on self-explanatory assembly can reduce the use of procedural instructions and the associated problems. This paper describes how different groups of students, in two different design-engineering courses designed or ...
Parmentier, Davy +2 more
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A new paradigm to study social and physical affordances as model-based reinforcement learning
Cognitive RoboticsSocial affordances, although key in human-robot interaction processes, have received little attention in robotics. Hence, it remains unclear whether the prevailing mechanisms to exploit and learn affordances in the absence of human interaction can be ...
Augustin Chartouny +3 more
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Boundaryless Twitter Use: On the Affordances of Social Media
Social 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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N300 and social affordances: a study with a real person and a dummy as stimuli. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Pictures of objects have been shown to automatically activate affordances, that is, actions that could be performed with the object. Similarly, pictures of faces are likely to activate social affordances, that is, interactions that would be possible with
J Bruno Debruille +2 more
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