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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Affordance Theory"”.
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Identifying the limits of an integrated training environment using human abilities and affordance theory
… anchored in systems engineering principles, affordance theory, and human abilities, to measure the potential of integrated training environments (ITEs) to effectively support training. Empirical investigation of ITEs is costly, lacks formal guidance, and is therefore often unreliable. Ad hoc …
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Manipulating affordances in practice : a hermeneutic phenomenological study of mobility impairment and uses of digital technologies in work
… study uses a triad of theoretical lenses - affordance theory, hermeneutic phenomenology and the social barriers model of disability - through which to gain an understanding of how people with mobility impairments use digital technologies in their work practices. A hermeneutic …
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Artificial Intelligence Affordances for Organisational Change: Perspectives from South African Artificial Intelligence Practitioners
… so by delineating the AI features and drawing on affordance theory to explicitly identify the affordances, the types of organisational change and the constraining conditions under which such AI-related affordances may influence organisational change. This qualitative study adopts an interpretive …
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Artificial Intelligence Affordances for Organisational Change: Perspectives from South African Artificial Intelligence Practitioners
… so by delineating the AI features and drawing on affordance theory to explicitly identify the affordances, the types of organisational change and the constraining conditions under which such AI-related affordances may influence organisational change. This qualitative study adopts an interpretive …
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The actualization of the social media affordance for sociality in an informal learning environment: the case of Saudi Arabia
… education. Consider explaining how social media affordances for sociality may be actualized for the greatest benefit of learners in the future. Additionally, it is crucial to examine the factors that influence the realization of these affordances and how they impact informal learning behaviours. …
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The ability of surveillance capitalist technology firms to resist U.S. government surveillance
… surveillance. A political science adaptation of Affordance Theory was used to separate methods used to resist surveillance into four affordances: legal, political, technical, and market. Review of each firms’ actions provided a more granular evaluation of the motivations and impact of their …
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I make, therefore I am: Agency, action, affordance, and the path to creative identity
… and identity are discussed, and the emerging theory of circuits of creative affordance is found to be a useful means for considering creative identities. Three research questions are developed: How do the internal and external affordances to creativity influence an individual maker’s evolution …
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Affordances In The Design Of Virtual Environments
… Theories of direct perception, in particular affordance theory, may prove particularly relevant to enhancing VE interaction design. The present research constructs a conceptual model of how affordances are realized in the natural world and how lack of sensory stimuli may lead to realization …
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Dispositions in Practice: An Autoethnographic Study of Competence in Mathematics
… identities. Grounded in situated cognition and affordance theory, I explore a classroom environment where how students learn became important for more than just the construction of competence but became a central marker of competence in itself. Through this inquiry, I came to view competence not …
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Affordances of Learning Analytics for Mediating Learning
… qualitative research design, based on "Grounded Theory" was implemented and 10 educators from 3 European universities were recruited through convenience and purposive sampling for exploratory interviews. A subsequent case study of the Open University provided critical perspectives from both …
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Visual perception of moving objects: Effects of velocity and direction
… element on the object, has a more significant affordance to the observer. This leads to more conservative responses to avoid contact. Experiment 2 set out to investigate this prediction. The results of Experiment 2 show that observer errors in time-to-contact predictions increase with increases …
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Use of smartphones by romantic partners to maintain their relationships
… convenience sampling techniques were used. The affordance theory was used as a theoretical framework for the research and the data was analysed using thematic analysis. FINDINGS: The study identified individual and interactional affordances of smartphones for romantic relationship maintenances. …
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Investigating the Alignments Between Scholarly and Popular Texts in Design: A Content Analysis
… was to investigate the alignments in the use of theory, principles and guidelines in instructional design books and popular books on design. The review of literature was conducted in three parts. The first part of the literature review was a general review of literature and it was conducted on …
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Connecting for a Social Good: A Multi-level Analysis of a Nascent Online Community
… literatures as well as the theories of affordances, technological frames of reference and groupware adoption, this thesis develops a multi-level model to address the research question. This model theorizes the evolution of nascent OCs and the influence of context and materiality on this …
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Understanding garden visitors: the affordances of a leisure environment.
… (motivational theories) to the emerging theory of affordance. The study consisted of four phases of data collection. Two phases obtained quantitative data from surveys - first, of residents in Dorset and secondly, visitors in a garden. The aim was to identify garden visitors and to …
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Performance Augmentation: Immersive Technology for Workplace Training
… this research's theoretical landscape includes Affordance Theory and Social Systems Theory. It takes structure from models of technology acceptance (UTAUT2) and Anderson and Krathwohl's taxonomy of cognitive processes, using these to shed light on the attitudes and expectations that surround the …
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Interrogative Design as a Means for Confronting Hostile Architecture
… by exploring the theoretical underpinnings of ‘affordance’ theory and its implications for understanding the phenomenon of so-called ‘hostile’ architecture; it examines possibilities to shed light on the complex interplay between human perception, environmental affordances, and social control. …
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Explaining organisational business process adoption mechanisms - A critical realist perspective on social reflexivity and process affordances
… deliberations on perceived changes in process affordances with respect to personal and group goals over time. It is believed that business processes offer various affordances to people to achieve their personal and project goals – an agent-process-relation with action potential. Given the …
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What it’s Worth: Preferences and Expectations of Music Listeners in the Evaluation of Material Affordances
This dissertation examines the relationship between the materiality of cultural objects and consumption practices. Over the course of three chapters, I utilize data gathered from semi-structured interviews with heavy consumers of music to demonstrate that the shift from analog to digital …