Journal articles: 'Multiple affordances'

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Haddad, Lilas, Yannick Wamain, and Solène Kalénine. "Too much to handle? Interference from distractors with similar affordances on target selection for handled objects." PLOS ONE 18, no. 8 (August 29, 2023): e0290226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290226.

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The existence of handle affordances has been classically demonstrated using the Stimulus-Response Compatibility paradigm, with shorter response times when the orientation of the object handle and the response hand are compatible in comparison to incompatible. Yet the activation of handle affordances from visual objects has been investigated in very simple situations involving single stimulus and motor response. As natural perceptual scenes are usually composed of multiple objects that could activate multiple affordances, the consequence of multiple affordance activation on the perception and processing of a given object of the scene requires more investigation. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of distractor affordances on the processing of a target object in situations involving several familiar graspable objects. In two online experiments, 229 participants had to select a target object (the kitchen utensil or the tool) in a visual scene displaying a pair of objects. They performed left key presses when the target was on the left and right key presses when the target was on the right. Target handle orientation and response side could be compatible or incompatible. Critically, target and distractor objects had similar or dissimilar handle affordances, with handles oriented for left- or right-hand grasps. Results from the two experiments showed slower response times when target and distractor objects had similar handle affordances in comparison to dissimilar affordances, when participants performed right hand responses and when target orientation and response were compatible. Thus, affordance similarity between objects may interfere rather than facilitate object processing and slow down target selection. These findings are in line with models of affordance and object selection assuming automatic inhibition of distractors’ affordances for appropriate object interaction.

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Chen, Xi, and Weihua Zhu. "Exploiting language affordances in Chinese-mediated intercultural communication." Intercultural Pragmatics 20, no. 5 (November 1, 2023): 495–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2023-5002.

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Abstract In this study, we explore how language affordances are exploited in intercultural communication using the socio-cognitive approach. Based on previous discussions of language affordances, we divide the exploiting practices into three categories, namely, enabling a language affordance, constraining a language affordance, and presenting multiple language affordances. Data were collected from 16 roundtable discussions that took place over four seasons of a Chinese TV program. Each roundtable discussion involved four L1 Chinese speakers and eleven L2 Chinese speakers. The L2 speakers are multilingual, frequently speaking more than one language, including English. A quantitative analysis of the data reveals a collective pattern in the participants’ exploitation of language affordances, that is, they tend to activate more core common-ground knowledge than the knowledge of emergent common ground. In addition, they are inclined to construct multicultural common ground, which they actively align themselves with. Their awareness of communicative goals and self-identification as competent multilingual speakers also influence their choice of language affordances.

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Ye, Lin, Wilson Cardwell, and Leonard S. Mark. "Perceiving Multiple Affordances for Objects." Ecological Psychology 21, no. 3 (July 29, 2009): 185–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10407410903058229.

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Du, Xiaoshuang, and Lian Zhang. "Investigating EFL Learners’ Perceptions of Critical Thinking Learning Affordances: Voices From Chinese University English Majors." SAGE Open 12, no. 2 (April 2022): 215824402210945. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440221094584.

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Affordances are action possibilities provided by the environment. This study investigated university EFL learners’ perceptions of the critical thinking learning affordances in their course learning environment. The participants were a cohort of 156 fourth-year English majors from a Chinese university where the English department was under a curriculum reform to promote students’ language learning and critical thinking development. The instrument of this study was the Learning Environment Affordance Survey_Critical Thinking (LEAS_CT) with a set of multiple-choice questions. The data analysis methods used in the study included descriptive statistical analysis, factor analysis, and MANOVA tests. The results showed that the English majors had strongly positive perceptions of the critical thinking learning affordances, which included four types: Rich Resources, Interactive Negotiation, Quality Task, and Community Culture. The results also revealed that high-achieving students had significantly better perceptions of the critical thinking learning affordances than lower-achieving students. Responses to the multiple-choice questions indicated that the English majors considered content-rich materials, teacher-facilitation, and small-group/peer learning benefited them most in terms of critical thinking development. Factors that influenced their perceptions of learning affordances and implications concerning integrating critical thinking into the tertiary EFL curriculum were discussed.

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Lichti, Constantin W., and Andranik Tumasjan. "“My Precious!”: A Values-Affordances Perspective on the Adoption of Bitcoin." Journal of the Association for Information Systems 24, no. 3 (2023): 629–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00790.

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Given the growing pervasiveness of information systems (IS) in everyday life, recent research has acknowledged that IS technologies are often not value free but are instead infused with fundamental personal values. However, little is known about how such values explain why people assimilate these technologies and their affordances. In the intriguing case of Bitcoin, personal values—especially libertarian political values—played an essential role in clarifying the ideological underpinnings of Bitcoin and its early adoption. Consequently, we draw on research on personal values and affordance theory to develop and test a model explicating how these personal values guide individuals toward using IS applications with salient affordances that address their values. Specifically, we hypothesize and test how individuals’ personal values (i.e., libertarian political values) influence their attitudes toward Bitcoin affordances and their Bitcoin use behavior using data from a multiple administration survey of 236 users and nonusers of Bitcoin. Our results indicate that libertarian political values affect individuals’ attitudes toward Bitcoin affordances, which in turn mediate the effects of these values on actual Bitcoin use. Our findings advance the field by demonstrating the importance of integrating values into the conceptualization of IS technology affordances.

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Moldovan, Bogdan, Plinio Moreno, Davide Nitti, José Santos-Victor, and Luc De Raedt. "Relational affordances for multiple-object manipulation." Autonomous Robots 42, no. 1 (May 3, 2017): 19–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10514-017-9637-x.

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Robertson, Lorayne, and Dianne Thomson. "Multiple Solitudes." International Journal of Knowledge Society Research 2, no. 3 (July 2011): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jksr.2011070101.

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In this paper, the authors examine the potential and the reality of pan-Canadian digital curriculum policy access in the current web-enabled global landscape. The authors discuss theory related to the affordances offered by digital technologies for the sharing of research and policy, as well as theory relative to knowledge mobilization and communities of practice, both of which support collaboration and consultation for informed policy development. The authors present their findings from two investigations to test digital access to curriculum policies across Canada’s provinces and territories through their Ministry of Education websites. Through this analysis, the authors provide evidence of the current affordances and barriers related to digital access to curriculum policies and offer suggestions to facilitate knowledge mobilization around curricular responses to child and adolescent health issues.

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Bennett, Timothy, Liam Thomas, and Andrew D. Wilson. "Affordances for throwing: An uncontrolled manifold analysis." PLOS ONE 19, no. 4 (April 17, 2024): e0301320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301320.

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Movement systems are massively redundant, and there are always multiple movement solutions to any task demand; motor abundance. Movement consequently exhibits ‘repetition without repetition’, where movement outcomes are preserved but the kinematic details of the movement vary across repetitions. The uncontrolled manifold (UCM) concept is one of several methods that analyses movement variability with respect to task goals, to quantify repetition without repetition and test hypotheses about the control architecture producing a given abundant response to a task demand. However, like all these methods, UCM is under-constrained in how it decomposes a task and performance. In this paper, we propose and test a theoretical framework for constraining UCM analysis, specifically the perception of task-dynamical affordances. Participants threw tennis balls to hit a target set at 5m, 10m or 15m, and we performed UCM analysis on the shoulder-elbow-wrist joint angles with respect to variables derived from an affordance analysis of this task as well as more typical biomechanical variables. The affordance-based UCM analysis performed well, although data also showed thrower dynamics (effectivities) need to be accounted for as well. We discuss how the theoretical framework of affordances and affordance-based control can be connected to motor abundance methods in the future.

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Attebery, Brian. "Affordances of Fantasy." Genre 57, no. 1 (April 1, 2024): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00166928-10982852.

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Abstract Each of the functions of fantasy described by J. R. R. Tolkien in his essay “On Fairy-Stories” can be reframed through affordance theory into a kind of re-visioning. Such re-visioning is comparable to the formalist notion of defamiliarization or the science fiction technique that Darko Suvin called “cognitive estrangement.” Whereas science fiction projects alternative futures, fantasy's affordances allow writers to generate alternative worldviews grounded in real or invented mythic pasts. The initial move away from claiming to imitate reality allows fantasy writers to project inner experience onto an outer storyworld (there is no pathetic fallacy in fantasy), to depict multiple contradictory selves (housed within a single body or spread out over several characters), and to invite readers to consider alternatives to commonsense assumptions and seemingly inevitable social orders.

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Wagman, Jeffrey B., Vincent T. Cialdella, and Thomas A. Stoffregen. "Higher order affordances for reaching: Perception and performance." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72, no. 5 (July 2, 2018): 1200–1211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747021818784403.

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Affordances are available behaviours emerging from relations between properties of animals and their environment. In any situation, multiple behaviours are available, that is, multiple affordances exist. We asked whether participants could detect means–ends relations among affordances (i.e., higher order affordances) in the context of reaching to a maximum height. We both assessed perceived affordances and evaluated actual reaching ability. In Experiment 1, we co-varied higher order goals (reaching to touch vs reaching to grasp) and the lower order effectors used to achieve the goals (fingertips vs a hand-held tool). In Experiment 2, we varied the lower order posture from which reaching would occur (standing vs kneeling). In both experiments, perceived maximum reaching height reflected relations between lower order means (effectors and postures) and higher order ends (reaching goals), and judgments closely reflected actual performance. We conclude that participants demonstrated prospective sensitivity to higher order affordances for reaching extended across multiple levels of the means–ends hierarchy.

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Morrison, Amani C. "Black Spatial Affordances and the Residential Ecologies of the Great Migration." Environment and Society 13, no. 1 (September 1, 2022): 43–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ares.2022.130104.

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Affordance theory, originating in ecological psychology but adopted by the field of design studies, refers to possibilities for action that a subject perceives in an environment. I posit Black spatial affordance, critically employing affordances with an eye toward Black ecological and geographical practices, and I apply it to the Great Migration residential landscape and literature. Grounded in racial capitalist critique, Black geographic thought, and cultural critique at the intersections of race, place, and performance, Black spatial affordance works as an analytic to engage Black quotidian practice in racially circumscribed and delineated places and spaces. Operating at multiple scales, Black spatial affordance engages the specificity of places structured by racism to analyze the micro-level spatial negotiations Black subjects devise and employ in recognition of the terrain through which they move or are emplaced. Employing Black spatial affordance enables critical inquiry into the spatial navigation of subjects who occupy marginal positions in society.

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Ahufrieva, Anastasia, and Elena Gorbunova. "Motor affordances in visual search for multiple targets." Journal of Vision 21, no. 9 (September 27, 2021): 2984. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.9.2984.

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Ye, Lin, Robin D. Thomas, and Douglas L. Gardner. "The Perception of Multiple Affordances: A Multidimensional Scaling Approach." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 52, no. 18 (September 2008): 1267–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193120805201824.

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Wu, Hsin-Kai, and Sadhana Puntambekar. "Pedagogical Affordances of Multiple External Representations in Scientific Processes." Journal of Science Education and Technology 21, no. 6 (January 18, 2012): 754–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10956-011-9363-7.

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Bobsin, Debora, Maira Petrini, and Marlei Pozzebon. "The value of technology affordances to improve the management of nonprofit organizations." RAUSP Management Journal 54, no. 1 (February 11, 2019): 14–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rausp-07-2018-0045.

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the benefits generated by the use of new technologies by nonprofit organizations, with focus on how these artefacts can improve their ability to achieve their social mission. Design/methodology/approach To understand the potential use of technology by a nonprofit organization, the concept of affordance was applied. The authors propose a processual model of affordances’ interdependences that enrich the extant literature. Six nonprofit organizations in two Brazilian regions were deeply investigated using a multiple case study method. Findings The authors identified new sub-categories of technology affordances, which are not just related to nonprofit but that could be also applied to other types, including for-profit. Sub-categories of affordances seem to play different roles in the actualization process. The authors are not proposing determinist connections among sub-categories, but they argue that they sustain some sub-categories precede or create the condition for others to emerge. Originality/value Nonprofit organizations lack theoretical and empirical investigations on management in general and on technology management in particular. In its turn, the technology field does not pay much attention, both in terms of research and practice, to the specificities of the third sector where the nonprofit organizations operate. This process model of potential uses of new technologies that might favor nonprofit organizations contributes to the cross-fertilization between two distinct fields: third sector and technology management.

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Zech, Philipp, Simon Haller, Safoura Rezapour Lakani, Barry Ridge, Emre Ugur, and Justus Piater. "Computational models of affordance in robotics: a taxonomy and systematic classification." Adaptive Behavior 25, no. 5 (September 18, 2017): 235–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1059712317726357.

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J. J. Gibson’s concept of affordance, one of the central pillars of ecological psychology, is a truly remarkable idea that provides a concise theory of animal perception predicated on environmental interaction. It is thus not surprising that this idea has also found its way into robotics research as one of the underlying theories for action perception. The success of the theory in this regard has meant that existing research is both abundant and diffuse by virtue of the pursuit of multiple different paths and techniques with the common goal of enabling robots to learn, perceive, and act upon affordances. Up until now, there has existed no systematic investigation of existing work in this field. Motivated by this circumstance, in this article, we begin by defining a taxonomy for computational models of affordances rooted in a comprehensive analysis of the most prominent theoretical ideas of import in the field. Subsequently, after performing a systematic literature review, we provide a classification of existing research within our proposed taxonomy. Finally, by both quantitatively and qualitatively assessing the data resulting from the classification process, we highlight gaps in the research terrain and outline open questions for the investigation of affordances in robotics that we believe will help inform future work, prioritize research goals, and potentially advance the field toward greater robot autonomy.

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Boulton, Alex. "Beyond concordancing: Multiple affordances of corpora in university language degrees." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 34 (2012): 33–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.02.008.

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Plazak, Joseph, and Marta Kersten-Oertel. "A Survey on the Affordances of “Hearables”." Inventions 3, no. 3 (July 14, 2018): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/inventions3030048.

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Recent developments pertaining to ear-mounted wearable computer interfaces (i.e., “hearables”) offer a number of distinct affordances over other wearable devices in ambient and ubiquitous computing systems. This paper provides a survey of hearables and the possibilities that they offer as computer interfaces. Thereafter, these affordances are examined with respect to other wearable interfaces. Finally, several historical trends are noted within this domain, and multiple paths for future development are offered.

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Ettlinger, Nancy. "Algorithmic affordances for productive resistance." Big Data & Society 5, no. 1 (January 2018): 205395171877139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053951718771399.

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Although overarching if not foundational conceptualizations of digital governance in the field of critical data studies aptly account for and explain subjection, calculated resistance is left conceptually unattended despite case studies that document instances of resistance. I ask at the outset why conceptualizations of digital governance are so bleak, and I argue that all are underscored implicitly by a Deleuzian theory of desire that overlooks agency, defined here in Foucauldian terms. I subsequently conceptualize digital governance as encompassing subjection as well as resistance, and I cast the two in relational perspective by making use of the concepts “affordance” and “assemblage” in conjunction with multiple subjectivities and Foucault's view of power as productive as well as his view of resistance as an “antagonism of strategies” in his late scholarship on resistance, ethics, and subjectivity. I offer examples of salient modes of what I call “productive” resistance (as opposed to resistance by way of avoidance, disruption or obfuscation), and from a Foucauldian perspective I explain how each mode targets and subverts technologies of repressive power to produce new elements of the digital environment and construct new truths. I conclude by recognizing the agency embodied in resistance as an end in itself, but I also consider that modes of productive resistance can have extrinsic value as they affect the fluid interaction among elements of the digital environment, potentially disrupting the presumed structure of dominance and dependence, and opening our conceptualization of algorithmic life to hopeful possibilities for change.

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Memon, Atia Bano, and Kyrill Meyer. "Affordances of Business Pages on Social Networking Sites." International Journal of Social Media and Online Communities 12, no. 2 (July 2020): 21–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsmoc.2020070102.

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This paper initially undertakes a comparative analysis of business page architecture of different SNSs by employing a desktop-based research approach consisting of surveying existing business pages, creating sample business pages, and reviewing official documentations of included SNSs. The observations indicate that the existing SNSs exhibit vast diversity and impose platform-specific boundaries that result in the fragmentation and dispersion of business information across multiple sites. Accordingly, the next part of the paper explores the potential of SNS APIs as an opportunity for the aggregation and centralization of SNS business information and successively proposes a conceptual model of business page integration. The proposed model is validated and evaluated through a web-based application for the integrated business page search and interaction over multiple SNSs. The discussion taken herein should assist the businesses in choosing an appropriate SNS for their web representation and establishes the grounds and guidelines for next generation of integrated data applications.

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Komis, Vassilis, Christofors Karachristos, Despina Mourta, Konstantina Sgoura, Anastasia Misirli, and Alain Jaillet. "Smart Toys in Early Childhood and Primary Education: A Systematic Review of Technological and Educational Affordances." Applied Sciences 11, no. 18 (September 17, 2021): 8653. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11188653.

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The present paper presents a systematic review of the last 30 years that concerns records on Smart Toys and focuses on toys regarding early childhood and primary education children (3–12 years old). This paper aims to analyse and categorise smart toys (50 articles) in terms of their technological and educational affordances. The results show that the toys are designed based on four main technological affordances and their combinations. The educational affordances of smart toys are studied in terms of different use modes and their learning objectives aimed to identify specific objectives in different subjects and objectives based on transversal competencies such as problem solving, spatial thinking, computational thinking, collaboration and symbolic thinking. Finally, with the multiple correspondence analysis, the correlations between smart toys’ individual technological and educational affordances are grouped with the evolution of affordances related to their development date. In conclusion, in recent years, smart toys concern special sciences (programming) and some 21st-century skills (STEM and computational thinking). In contrast, in the first 20 years, the interest focused more on transverse skills, such as collaboration, emotional thinking, symbolic thinking, story-telling and problem solving.

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Fioroni Ribeiro da Silva, Carolina, Ana Luiza Righetto Greco, Denise Castilho Cabrera Santos, Giuseppina Sgandurra, and Eloisa Tudella. "Association between Contextual Factors and Affordances in the Home Environment of Infants Exposed to Poverty." Children 10, no. 12 (December 15, 2023): 1932. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10121932.

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Home environments of infants exposed to poverty exhibit fewer affordances for child development. This study aimed to investigate the association between contextual factors and affordances in the home environments of infants facing poverty. Term infants (n = 128) were divided into two groups: (1) exposed group (EG), comprising term infants exposed to poverty, and (2) comparison group (CG), consisting of term infants classified with medium and high socio-economic status. The main dependent variables were physical space, variety of stimulation, gross and fine motor toys, and the total score; measured using the Brazilian version of the Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development-Infant Scale (AHEMD-IS) questionnaire, named Affordances no Ambiente Domiciliar para o Desenvolvimento Motor-Escala Bebê. Statistical analysis employed independent sample t-tests or Mann–Whitney tests, chi-square tests, and stepwise multiple linear regression models to evaluate predictors of less adequate home environments. The EG presented significantly fewer affordances in gross motor toys (Cohen’s r = 0.353; p < 0.01); fine motor toys (Cohen’s r = 0.327; p < 0.01); and total score (Cohen’s r = 0.377; p < 0.01). Binary logistic regression analysis showed a significant association (r2 = 0.828, p < 0.01) between the less than adequate home environment category and maternal age (p = 0.043, OR: 0.829 (0.692–0.994)), revealing that maternal age was associated with better quantity and quality of affordances for child development.

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Nosek, John T. "Towards an Affordance-Based Theory of Collaborative Action (CoAct)." International Journal of e-Collaboration 7, no. 4 (October 2011): 37–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jec.2011100103.

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Collaborative Action provides a novel approach to modeling interaction among users and machines and IT-mediated collaboration among people to solve problems. CoAct extends the notions of affordance and moves away from idiosyncratic, subjective mental models of the world to the notion that actors with similar capacities to act can potentially discern similar action possibilities in the world. It changes the direction from discovery and alignment of internal representations to mutual attunement of collaborators to build sufficient capabilities, share informational structures, and calibrate selectivity to achieve shared affordances. CoAct has the potential to influence such diverse areas as usability engineering, information overload, and group decision making. CoAct can be used at multiple levels of granularity, from fine granularity of a single interaction to tracking intermediate progress and results of a set of interactions. Propositions based on CoAct are presented. An initial experiment provides some support for an affordance-based approach to information sharing/design.

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Singleton, David, and Larissa Aronin. "Multiple Language Learning in the Light of the Theory of Affordances." Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching 1, no. 1 (April 16, 2007): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2167/illt44.0.

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Arbib, Michael A. "From visual affordances in monkey parietal cortex to hippocampo–parietal interactions underlying rat navigation." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 352, no. 1360 (October 29, 1997): 1429–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1997.0129.

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This paper explores the hypothesis that various subregions (but by no means all) of the posterior parietal cortex are specialized to process visual information to extract a variety of affordances for behaviour. Two biologically based models of regions of the posterior parietal cortex of the monkey are introduced. The model of the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) emphasizes its roles in dynamic remapping of the representation of targets during a double saccade task, and in combining stored, updated input with current visual input. The model of the anterior intraparietal area (AIP) addresses parietal–premotor interactions involved in grasping, and analyses the interaction between the AIP and premotor area F5. The model represents the role of other intraparietal areas working in concert with the inferotemporal cortex as well as with corollary discharge from F5 to provide and augment the affordance information in the AIP, and suggests how various constraints may resolve the action opportunities provided by multiple affordances. Finally, a systems–level model of hippocampo–parietal interactions underlying rat navigation is developed, motivated by the monkey data used in developing the above two models as well as by data on neurons in the posterior parietal cortex of the monkey that are sensitive to visual motion. The formal similarity between dynamic remapping (primate saccades) and path integration (rat navigation) is noted, and certain available data on rat posterior parietal cortex in terms of affordances for locomotion are explained. The utility of further modelling, linking the World Graph model of cognitive maps for motivated behaviour with hippocampal–parietal interactions involved in navigation, is also suggested. These models demonstrate that posterior parietal cortex is not only itself a network of interacting subsystems, but functions through cooperative computation with many other brain regions.

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Giesbrecht, Tobias, Birgit Schenk, and Gerhard Schwabe. "Empowering front office employees with counseling affordances." Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy 9, no. 4 (October 19, 2015): 517–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tg-02-2015-0006.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the face-to-face citizen service encounter in public administrations’ front offices, and present a novel qualification approach to empower service personnel on-the-job, and thereby deepen the knowledge on the role of information and communication technology for advancing governmental reforms. Design/methodology/approach – The presented study follows a design science research methodology, conducted in collaboration with the public administration of a major German city. Data were collected using multiple quantitative and qualitative methods, including questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and video analysis. Findings – A novel on-the-job qualification approach for empowering public employees in their job-related skills, building on the concept of affordances, is developed. Thereto, six design principles for equipping artifacts with counseling affordances are presented. Evaluations in real-world environments provide first evidence that “learning with counseling affordances” constitutes an effective qualification measure to initiate experiential learning on-the-job, helping employees in the resource-restricted work environment of public front offices to obtain the skills to provide superior advisory services. Research limitations/implications – The “learning with counseling affordances” approach was developed in collaboration with an individual major German city and the paper provides first evidence of its effectiveness and suitability. Hence, the study’s insights should be approved by further research to strengthen generalizability. Originality/value – The paper highlights the previously neglected aspects of employee’s skills and qualification for promoting governmental transformation. By highlighting the beneficial relationship between affordances and on-the-job learning, the paper provides novel insights on the role of information and communication technology to promote governmental transformation.

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Liu, Chen Chung, I. Chen Hsieh, Cai Ting Wen, Ming Hua Chang, Shih Hsun Fan Chiang, Meng-Jung Tsai, Chia Jung Chang, and Fu Kwun Hwang. "The affordances and limitations of collaborative science simulations: The analysis from multiple evidences." Computers & Education 160 (January 2021): 104029. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.104029.

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Sarkar, Anurag, Adam Summerville, Sam Snodgrass, Gerard Bentley, and Joseph Osborn. "Exploring Level Blending Across Platformers via Paths and Affordances." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 16, no. 1 (October 1, 2020): 280–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aiide.v16i1.7442.

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Techniques for procedural content generation via machine learning (PCGML) have been shown to be useful for generating novel game content. While used primarily for producing new content in the style of the game domain used for training, recent works have increasingly started to explore methods for discovering and generating content in novel domains via techniques such as level blending and domain transfer. In this paper, we build on these works and introduce a new PCGML approach for producing novel game content spanning multiple domains. We use a new affordance and path vocabulary to encode data from six different platformer games and train variational autoencoders on this data, enabling us to capture the latent level space spanning all the domains and generate new content with varying proportions of the different domains.

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Wang, Zhaozhe. "Relive Differences through a Material Flashback." College Composition & Communication 70, no. 3 (February 1, 2019): 380–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ccc201929988.

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Through an ecological and autoethnographic analysis of a repository of diachronically archived texts written over a period of six years in multiple cultural, geographical, and disciplinary contexts, the author unfolds his materialized experiences of coming to terms with, embracing, and composing with rhetorical differences as spatiotemporal relationality and affordances.

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Zhong, Y., R. Takawaki, and E. T. Harada. "How Do Semantic Clues Affect People's Perceptions of Products with Multiple Meanings." Proceedings of the Design Society 2 (May 2022): 2253–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.228.

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AbstractA psychological experiment was conducted to explore the relationship between design features of physical controllers and perceived multiple meanings or possible operations by users. In particular, we focused on affordances and informatives, two semantic clues derived from product semantics, to find out how these clues affect users’ perceptions. The results indicated that both desired shapes, text, and icon could encourage and discourage the perception of specific operations. Those empirical data could be useful for product designers in communicating effectively with users through their products.

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Miltner, Kate M., and Tim Highfield. "Never Gonna GIF You Up: Analyzing the Cultural Significance of the Animated GIF." Social Media + Society 3, no. 3 (July 2017): 205630511772522. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305117725223.

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The animated Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a digital file format with a long history within internet cultures and digital content. Emblematic of the early Web, the GIF fell from favor in the late 1990s before experiencing a resurgence that has seen the format become ubiquitous within digital communication. While the GIF has certain technical affordances that make it highly versatile, this is not the sole reason for its ubiquity. Instead, GIFs have become a key communication tool in contemporary digital cultures thanks to a combination of their features, constraints, and affordances. GIFs are polysemic, largely because they are isolated snippets of larger texts. This, combined with their endless, looping repetition, allows them to relay multiple levels of meaning in a single GIF. This symbolic complexity makes them an ideal tool for enhancing two core aspects of digital communication: the performance of affect and the demonstration of cultural knowledge. The combined impact of these capabilities imbues the GIF with resistant potential, but it has also made it ripe for commodification. In this article, we outline and articulate the GIF’s features and affordances, investigate their implications, and discuss their broader significance for digital culture and communication.

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Charleer, Sven, Joris Klerkx, and Erik Duval. "Learning Dashboards." Journal of Learning Analytics 1, no. 3 (December 2, 2014): 199–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.18608/jla.2014.13.22.

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My work explores how information visualisation techniques can be applied to Learning Analytics data to help teachers and students deal with the abundance of learner traces. I also investigate how the affordances of large interactive surfaces can facilitate a collaborative sense-making environment for multiple students and teachers to explore these learner traces together.

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Ikegwuonu, Christiana Ngozi, and Princess Ngozi Ndibe. "Affordances and Common Grounds in Buyer-Seller Interactions." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 13, no. 2 (March 1, 2022): 279–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1302.07.

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This study examines the interactions between buyers and sellers in the market setting using the common ground theoretical framework. From the existing literature, it is observed that no research work has examined the above subject matter in the Igbo language using the above mentioned theoretical framework. This is the lacuna in the literature that this study intends to address. The specific objective is to explore the interactions between presuppositions, stages of understanding an utterance and reception strategies in buyer-seller interactions during haggling. Ten interactions were recorded and three of them were sampled in this study. The data were analyzed using the common ground theory. The findings of the study reveal that both the seller and buyer often have the generic structure of buyer-seller interactions in their subconscious, which they put into practice when they engage in market discourse. Also, the buyers and sellers update their personal or emergent common ground as they negotiate meaning during interactions. Furthermore, as the result of the common ground shared by the buyer and the seller, they interpret every utterance based on the affordances of a speech event in a market setting where a buyer is under no obligation to buy after haggling nor is the seller obligated to sell. It also discovers that presupposition is at the heart of grounding because at every interactive turn, a speaker believes that the addressee understands his/ her intentions. The researcher recommends further research on the pragmatic implications for the use of multiple codes during buyer-seller interactions in Igbo land.

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Bartnik, Clemens G., and Iris I. A. Groen. "Human perception of navigational affordances in real-world environments relies on multiple scene properties." Journal of Vision 22, no. 14 (December 5, 2022): 3556. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.14.3556.

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De Vita, Mauro, Lieven Verschaffel, and Jan Elen. "Interactive Whiteboards in Mathematics Teaching: A Literature Review." Education Research International 2014 (2014): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/401315.

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An interactive whiteboard (IWB) is a relatively new tool that provides interesting affordances in the classroom environment, such as multiple visualization and multimedia presentation and ability for movement and animation. These affordances make IWBs an innovative tool with high potential for mathematics instructional environments. IWBs can be used to focus on the development of specific mathematical concepts and to improve mathematical knowledge and understanding. The aim of this paper is to review the existing literature upon the use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in mathematics classrooms. The reviewed studies offer a wide view of IWBs’ affordances, of the more interesting didactic practices, and of the difficulties of embedding this new technology in the classroom. The capabilities of IWBs to enhance the quality of interaction, and, consequently, to improve conceptual mathematical understanding are broadly recognized. Despite these capabilities, evidence from the studies points to a certain inertia on the part of many teachers to do anything else than use IWBs as large-scale visual blackboards or presentation tools. The emerging view of how to attempt to overcome these obstacles is that there is need for greater attention to the pedagogy associated with IWB use and, more specifically, to stimulate the design of new kinds of learning environments.

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Brøns, Mie Guldbæk. "Considering multiple types of children’s communities ought to be a priority when designing schools." IUL Research 3, no. 6 (December 21, 2022): 121–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.57568/iulres.v3i6.348.

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In this paper, the author reflects on the affordances of various physical learning spaces. The author uses four different types of children’s communities as a lens to do so. Children’s communities are important because they are fundamental for children’s well-being and development. Furthermore, learning to gain access to and partake in communities are skills that are needed throughout life. Teachers are responsible for ensuring that students can access and engage in a variety of communities. Different spaces support different aspects of the professional facilitation of children’s communities. Essentially, school architecture and learning space design support and/or hinder teachers’ pedagogical possibilities.

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Farrugia, Adrian, Joanne Neale, Robyn Dwyer, Renae Fomiatti, Suzanne Fraser, John Strang, and Paul Dietze. "Conflict and communication: managing the multiple affordances of take-home naloxone administration events in Australia." Addiction Research & Theory 28, no. 1 (February 27, 2019): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2019.1571193.

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Kozma, R. "The material features of multiple representations and their cognitive and social affordances for science understanding." Learning and Instruction 13, no. 2 (April 2003): 205–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0959-4752(02)00021-x.

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Gledhill, Christopher. "Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska, Alex Boulton (eds.), Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora for Data-driven Learning." ASp, no. 68 (October 23, 2015): 103–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/asp.4733.

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Beltman, Susan, and Simone Volet. "Exploring the Complex and Dynamic Nature of Sustained Motivation." European Psychologist 12, no. 4 (January 2007): 314–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040.12.4.314.

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Abstract. This paper addresses the issue of sustained motivation over time, in relation to real-life activities requiring complex skills in multiple contexts of participation. It reports an empirical study that explores how high achieving athletes and musicians appraise salient aspects of person and context as affordances and constraints, and how these appraisals shape motivation over time. Longitudinal and retrospective qualitative data were gathered about the life trajectories of 30 adolescent and adult participants, including details of their development in sport and music, people who had influenced them, their beliefs and hopes, difficulties and life events encountered and how these had been dealt with. Three major findings emerged. First, sustained motivation is inextricably linked to both person and context. Second, it is mediated by individuals' ongoing appraisal process of personal and contextual aspects of their current situation, which are interpreted as affordances or constraints. Third, the nature and extent of participation is constantly revised as a result of ongoing changes in personal and contextual circumstances over time.

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Halkier, Bente, and Iben Jensen. "Methodological challenges in using practice theory in consumption research. Examples from a study on handling nutritional contestations of food consumption." Journal of Consumer Culture 11, no. 1 (March 2011): 101–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1469540510391365.

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In this article, we discuss the challenges of analytical translations between practice theory and empirical research methods in consumption research. We argue that a social constructivist interpretation of practice theory can be particularly useful in enabling consumption researchers to carry out empirical studies that are different from mainstream approaches to consumer culture. Such mainstream approaches typically privilege either individual consumer choices or cultural structures outside of the reach of consumers. We highlight two analytical affordances from social constructivist practice theory. The first is to enable consumption researchers to analyse ways of consuming and how these are entangled in webs of social reproductions and changes. The second is to allow consumption researchers to understand ways of consuming as continuous relational accomplishments in intersectings of multiple practices in everyday life. We discuss the methodological implications for data-production and data-analysis from these two analytical affordances on the basis of our empirical qualitative study of the handling of nutritionalized contestation of food consumption among Pakistani Danes.

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Silva, Lucas M., Elizabeth A. Ankrah, Yuqi Huai, and Daniel A. Epstein. "Exploring Opportunities for Multimodality and Multiple Devices in Food Journaling." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 7, MHCI (September 11, 2023): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3604256.

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Digital food journaling can support personal goals, such as weight loss and developing healthy eating behaviors. However, traditional manual tracking demands great effort, often leading to lapses or abandonment. We explore opportunities for journaling with multiple input modalities and devices, leveraging people's daily interactions with a range of technologies. We report on an extended analysis of 15 participants' experiences with ModEat, a prototype supporting journaling with several input modalities on phone, computer, and voice assistants. Participants' modality and device preferences were largely influenced by their goals, but they frequently deviated from those preferences depending on device availability, perceived affordances, and characteristics of foods eaten. Participants rarely combined input modalities in entries, but some described that doing so allowed for more detailed journaling or serve as a placeholder for later. We discuss advantages and drawbacks of multimodal tracking and potential strategies for improving interactions.

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Lee, Yu-Hao, and Chien Wen Yuan. "The Privacy Calculus of “Friending” Across Multiple Social Media Platforms." Social Media + Society 6, no. 2 (April 2020): 205630512092847. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305120928478.

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Relationship building through social network sites (SNSs) requires privacy disclosure that involves a calculus of potential benefits against privacy risks. Tie formation (e.g., friending, following, or connecting) on SNSs is one of the most significant forms of privacy disclosure that not only communicate one’s willingness to disclose but can also reveal past activity history and invite future interactions. Based on the communication privacy management theory, the current study examines how users consider the privacy calculus and tie-formation affordances of the SNSs to manage ties across multiple SNSs. Using an online survey of 630 Facebook and/or Instagram users, the study revealed that individuals with higher privacy concerns strategically manage their privacy by connecting with different relationship ties through different SNSs as a way to construct sociotechnical boundaries between networks. The findings have implications for understanding privacy management online and provide a potential explanation for the privacy paradox.

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Lai, Chih-Hui. "A study of emergent organizing and technological affordances after a natural disaster." Online Information Review 41, no. 4 (August 14, 2017): 507–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oir-10-2015-0343.

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Purpose Drawing on the model of technology-in-practice and the literature on bona fide approaches and technological affordances, the purpose of this paper is to argue that collectives involved in emergency response may exhibit similar and different usage patterns for technology due to the combined influence of the temporal development of the response actions and the existing and newly enacted organizational, social, and technological structures. Design/methodology/approach To enrich the argument about the inter-related influence on response organizations’ use of technology across phases of the disaster response, this research uses a multi-method and longitudinal case study of citizen-based response organizations after Hurricane Sandy. Findings Findings show that technologies were used similarly by response organizations immediately after the hurricane, whereas the later use of technologies exhibited variations. Moreover, Twitter was used consistently for diverse purposes across the phases of the disaster response, whereas Facebook usage among organizations first diverged and then converged two months after the hurricane. The organizations’ different patterns of social media use also reflected the construction and reconstruction of resource networks for relief operations over time. Research limitations/implications This study integrates multiple theoretical frameworks in explaining the processes and outcomes of technology use for collectives in emergency response, which presents an example of bridging and enriching the theoretical constructs from the areas of technology adaptation and emergency management. Practical implications Findings of this study provide practical knowledge about the mechanisms of integrating multiple information systems into the building of resilient social systems for emergency response. Social implications Findings of this study enrich social understanding about how the use of technologies for collective activity in emergency situations can go beyond one-time events and lay the foundation for long-term resilient emergency management. Originality/value The originality of this study lies in its mixed-method and longitudinal design, which allows for the examination of the timing, circumstances, and outcomes of citizen-based response organizations’ technology use.

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Hite, Rebecca, Gina Childers, Gail Jones, Elysa Corin, and Mariana Pereyra. "Describing the Experiences of Students with ADHD Learning Science Content with Emerging Technologies." Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities 24, no. 1 (November 12, 2021): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.14448/jsesd.13.0012.

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Emerging technologies, such as virtual reality, haptics, and 3-dimensionality, provide novel opportunities to allow students to investigate scientific phenomena by fostering perceptions of virtual presence, the feeling of being sensorially immersed and authentically interacting within a computer-generated virtual learning environment (VLE). Neurotypical learners are largely represented in VLE research on science learning, with fewer with neurodivergent learners, such as students with ADHD. This descriptive case study sought to address the dearth in the literature on neurodivergent students’ experiences, with emerging technologies, for learning science. Specifically, the case describes the extent to which neurodivergent learners experience the affordances of VLEs for science learning, as compared to their neurotypical peers, in: zooming, spatially orienting and rotating objects, viewing multiple representations and abstract processes in real-time, as well engaging in risk through multiple trials. Five middle grades students (diagnosed with ADHD) were assessed and observed using a tool (zSpace) that combines emerging technologies to learn cardiac anatomy and physiology. Students’ utterances of virtual presence and technological affordances were coded, and frequency counts and percentages were calculated, both individually and collectively. The results found that students most described sensory (41%), control (30%), and realism (26%) constructs with fewer reports of holding their attention (3%). Analyses of cardiac assessments found gains in scores for spatial rotation and viewing abstract processes, no change in score in viewing multiple representations, and a decrease in scores for spatial orientation. This case study provides unique insight into the needs of neurodivergent learners when using emerging technologies for science learning.

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Xu, Haimingyue. "A Future Direction for Virtual Reality Language Learning Using Dialogue Generation Systems." Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences 2 (July 13, 2022): 17–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v2i.714.

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The ability to speak multiple languages is crucial in the modern world. This paper sets a future direction for second language learning and introduces a new design incorporating recent technological advances such as virtual reality and dialogue generation systems. The design will be analysed from different perspectives, including the affordances of virtual reality systems, the learning objectives it can achieve, the learning strategies it utilises, and the language learning competencies learners can obtain using the design.

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Glavas, Charmaine, Heini Vanninen, and Joel Mero. "Harnessing social media business affordances for internationalisation: multiple case study of small and medium-sized enterprises." International Journal of Export Marketing 1, no. 1 (2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijexportm.2022.10048615.

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Smart, Jon. "Review: Leńko-Szymańska and Boulton (eds, 2015) Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora in Data-driven Learning." Corpora 11, no. 3 (November 2016): 465–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2016.0103.

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Nicholas, Maria. "Affordances of using Multiple Videoed Events to construct a rich understanding of adult–child book readings." International Journal of Research & Method in Education 41, no. 2 (November 14, 2016): 125–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1743727x.2016.1254176.

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Garner, James R. "Review of Leńko-Szymańska & Boulton ((2015)): Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora for Data-driven Learning." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20, no. 4 (December 30, 2015): 560–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.20.4.07gar.

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