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Showing 1 to 20 of 457 for “"Affordances"”.
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Affordances In The Design Of Virtual Environments
… research constructs a conceptual model of how affordances are realized in the natural world and how lack of sensory stimuli may lead to realization failures in virtual environments. Implications of the model were empirically investigated by examining three affordances: passability, …
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Affordances of Learning Analytics for Mediating Learning
Learning analytics acceptance and adoption is a socio-technological endeavour. Understanding how learning analytics impact practice is an important part of demonstrating their value. In the study presented in this thesis, "Mediated Learning" provides a framework through which to describe how …
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Understanding garden visitors: the affordances of a leisure environment.
Visiting. a garden in England is a traditional leisure activity that continues to grow in popularity but curiously this sector of the visitor attraction market has received little attention from academics. The thesis seeks to understand participation in garden visiting from a number of perspectives …
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Combating Problematic Information Online with Dual Process Cognitive Affordances
… answer, I merge these theories with the idea of affordances from HCI to into the concept of dual process cognitive affordances, consisting of automatic affordance and reflective affordance. Using this concept, I built and tested a set of systems to address two categories of online problematic …
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Understanding drinking behaviour; affordances and an ecological approach to cognition
… of brain, body and environment in terms of affordances. Contemporary ideas about Ecological psychology and affordances could be used to understand how individual-environment relations extend and constrain opportunities for consuming alcohol. This research programme comprised three studies: …
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Technology Affordances and Curriculum Flexibility in Higher Education Blended Learning
<p>This dissertation explores technological affordances in blended learning, their influence on the flexibility of statistics and data science curricula, and students' satisfaction with learning. While blended learning is often perceived as a flexible learning approach, its correlation with …
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Dynamic physical affordances for shape-changing and deformable user interfaces
… users understand their use. These physical affordances provide products and interfaces with many advantages: they contribute to good ergonomics, allow users to attend to other tasks visually, and take advantage of embodied and distributed cognition by allowing users to offload mental …
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Micro-affordances in visual mental imagery and visual short-term memory
Micro-affordance effects have been reported for several different components of the reachto- grasp action during on-line visual processing (Tucker and Ellis, 1998; Ellis and Tucker, 2000; and Tucker and Ellis, 2001). One property of these effects is that they have been shown to terminate once an …
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An Electrophysiological Examination of Visuomotor Activity Elicited by Visual Object Affordances
… activation for grip-type and lateralised affordances. These novel findings question the applicability of the label ‘visuomotor’ to grip-type affordance processing and suggest considerable revision to models of affordance. This thesis also offers a series of novel and surprising insights …
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The digitized infant : a field study of entangled emotions and affordances.
… interest. This study examines emotions and affordances within the context of remote infant monitoring. Through an affordance lens, this research conducts an exploratory field study to investigate the role of emotions in the use of an infant monitoring system (IMS). A qualitative analysis of …
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Novel affordances of computation to the design processes of kinetic structures
… analysis, conclusions are drawn as to the affordances and limitations of such tools as suggestive of the operations a CAD environment might perform so as to better foster future methodologies of designing. The design "experiments" are utilized as a vehicle to understand the process. …
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“Customization is Key”: Four Characteristics of Textual Affordances for Accessible Data Visualization
Current best practices recommend using textual descriptions to make data visualizations accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) screen reader users. While recent research has explored laying out such descriptions hierarchically to enable reading varying levels of detail, the textual descriptions …
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Perceptuo-motor calibration and the perception of affordances following rapid growth in adolescence
Adolescence is usually considered to be a time of transition from child to adult. However, studies of perceptuo-motor control have tended to focus on infants and young children or on adults, despite indications that the actions of adolescent children are poorly coordinated. This thesis examines the …
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Effect of the affordances of a virtual environment on second language oral proficiency
The traditional language laboratory consists of computer-based exercises in which students practice the language individually, working on language form drills and listening comprehension activities. In addition to the traditional approach to the laboratory requirement, students in the study …
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Situational Affordances and Psychopathy: Examining Contextual Influences on Exploitative Behavior in Economic Games
Psychopathy is a personality construct most prominently characterized by traits such as callousness, manipulativeness, and lack of guilt and remorse (Hare, 2003). This dissertation focused on the relationship between psychopathy and exploitation, using economic games as a method to measure …
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Designs and affordances for dialogue in Google Classroom: a design-based research study
… (DBR) framework. The aims were to both identify affordances of Google Classroom, and generate designs, that promote dialogue within it. Practitioners from an independent preparatory school, representing a range of curriculum subjects, were invited to participate as co-researchers in the project. …
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Artificial Intelligence Affordances for Organisational Change: Perspectives from South African Artificial Intelligence Practitioners
… 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 epistemology, while lending itself towards a …
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Artificial Intelligence Affordances for Organisational Change: Perspectives from South African Artificial Intelligence Practitioners
… 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 epistemology, while lending itself towards a …
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Re-animating dead space: the dislocation and relocation of affordances in interdisciplinary performance environments
… informed by James J. Gibson's 'Theory of Affordances' and the creative (inter)relationships that form between the environment and an individual, that individual and other individuals, all as constituents of the environment. The project's focus upon individuals as environmental stimuli and …
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A Study on multimodal affordances and the interpretative perspectives of level 300 Media Studies Students
… come with peculiar semiotic designs and unique affordances. This may suggest a potential textual shift with new requisite literacies in both public and academic domain. This study aimed to explore and describe the affordances of semiotic designs as ensembles and also to evaluate the …
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