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Affordance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An affordance is a quality of an object, or an environment, that allows an individual to perform an action. The term is used in a variety of fields: perceptual psychology, cognitive psychology, envi...
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One of my students and a collegue, Kairit Tammets who is analyzing the result of our affordance base course activity patterns and learning landscapes has bookmarked in delicious an interesting paper about Affordance Theory.
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Affordance theory states that the human visual system is designed to directly perceive action possibilities. In other words, the first thing we see is what we can do in the world. You can apply affordance theory by taking a fresh look at your interface and noting exactly what possible actions it's communicating.
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Gibson's concept of affordance is a key proposal. The idea is ... In situation theory, the meaning of a sentence is a relation between situations. The meaning of a spoken sentence is a relation between the situation in which the sentence is uttered and the situation about which uttering the sentence conveys information.
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<B>Purpose</B> - This study seeks to apply ecological psychology's concept of "affordance" to graduate students' information behavior in the academic library, and to explore the extent to which the affordances experienced by graduate ... Affordance theory: a framework for graduate students' information behavior...
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Title: Affordance theory: a framework for graduate students’ information behavior; Author(s): Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler, Lisa M. Given; Journal: Journal of Documentation; ISSN: 0022-0418; Year: 2007 Volume: 63 Issue: 1 Page: 115 – 141;
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Affordance Theory for Improving the; Rapid Generation, Composability, and; Reusability of Synthetic Agents and; Objects; Jason B. Cornwell Kevin O’Brien†; Barry G. Silverman‡ Jozsef A. Toth ; University of Pennsylvania;
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