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Signifiers for conveying and exploiting affordances: from human-computer interaction to multi-agent systems
The ecological psychologist James J. Gibson defined the notion of affordances to refer to what action possibilities environments offer to animals. In...
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Algorithmic Affordances in Recommender Interfaces
Recommenders play a significant role in our daily lives, making decisions for users on a regular basis. Their widespread adoption necessitates a... -
Results of the Workshop on Algorithmic Affordances in Recommender Interfaces
Algorithmic affordances are defined as user interaction mechanisms that allow users tangible control over AI algorithms, such as recommender systems.... -
The perceived affordances of simulation-based learning: online student teachers’ perspectives
In this study, we explore the perceived affordances of simulation-based learning (SBL) among online student teachers in Norway. We investigated how...
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Social Media Affordances for Disaster Management
Social media has seen a rise in usage especially for disaster communication. Existing research that investigated the use of social media for disaster... -
Affordances and constraints of integrating esports into higher education from the perspectives of students and teachers: An ecological systems approach
This study aimed to investigate the perceived affordances of incorporating esports into higher education using an ecological systems approach that...
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Exploring Categorizations of Algorithmic Affordances in Graphical User Interfaces of Recommender Systems
This exploratory study investigates the rationale behind categorizing algorithmic controls, or algorithmic affordances, in the graphical user... -
What Can You Do with a Sword? Gender Biases in Text Game Affordances
Game mechanics can be viewed in terms of affordances: possible actions offered by the environment—depending on the agent (e.g., in a fantasy... -
Explaining multistability: postphenomenology and affordances of technologies
A central issue in postphenomenology is how to explain the multistability of technologies: how can it be that specific technologies can be used for a...
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The Affordances and Usability Evaluation for HeartM 3.0: A Mobile Heart Monitoring Application
The use of health applications on mobile phones is gaining traction especially when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world. Such applications enable... -
Teacher observations of programming affordances for K-12 mathematics and technology
With future shortage of professionals with programming and computing skills, many countries have made programming part of kindergarten – grade 12...
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The Actualization of TikTok Affordances to Challenge Female Unrealistic Standards of Beauty
While social media platforms have often been used to perpetuate unrealistic standards of beauty, a new trend is emerging whereby social media users... -
Affordances-Based Behavior Change for Energy Efficiency Among Malaysians: A Conceptual Model
Climate change is a pressing global issue that affects countries worldwide. To mitigate its impacts, reducing carbon emissions is crucial. One... -
Design Ideas for Recommender Systems in Flexible Education: How Algorithmic Affordances May Address Ethical Concerns
In flexible education, recommender systems that support course selection, are considered a viable means to help students in making informed course... -
Affordances of Sleep-Tracking: Insights from Smart Ring Users
This study explores the usage and the respective affordances of sleep-tracking with a smart ring and the associated app. Sleep-tracking is a growing... -
Understanding Affordances in Short-Form Videos: A Performative Perspective
What would be a good system to explain short-form videos holistically? Building on a previous method paper (multimodal analysis), this paper outlines... -
Multimodal Semantics for Affordances and Actions
In this paper, we argue that, as HCI becomes more multimodal with the integration of gesture, gaze, posture, and other nonverbal behavior, it is... -
Agnostic Affordances: Challenging the Critical Realist Connection
James J. Gibson’s affordance theory (AT) and Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism (CR) have both gained attention in Information Systems (IS) research.... -
Older Adults’ Engagement with Short Video Applications During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceived Affordances and Constraints
The spread and proliferation of short video applications (like TikTok) equip older adults more opportunities to obtain information and pleasure,... -
Valuing Social Media Affordances
Various social media products concentrate differently on social media affordances to meet the needs of users. When designing social media products,...