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Affordance, conventions, and design
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I was quietly lurking in the background of a CHI-Web discussion, when I lost all reason: I just couldn't take it anymore, and out came this article: I don't know if it changed anyone's minds, but it brought the discussion to a halt (not what good list managers want to happen).Abstract:
I was quietly lurking in the background of a CHI-Web discussion, when I lost all reason: I just couldn't take it anymore. " I put an affordance there, " a participant would say, " I wonder if the object affords clicking … " Affordances this, affordances that. And no data, just opinion. Yikes! What had I unleashed upon the world? " No! " I screamed, and out came this article. I don't know if it changed anyone's minds, but it brought the CHI-Web discussion to a halt (not what good list managers want to happen). But then, Steven Pemberton asked me to submit it here. Hope it doesn't stop the discussion again. Mind you, this is not the exact piece I dashed off to CHI-Web: it has been polished and refined: the requirements of print are more demanding than those of e-mail discussions.read more
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Physical Place and Cyberplace: The Rise of Personalized Networking
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When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies
TL;DR: The imbrication metaphor is used to suggest how a human agency approach to technology can usefully incorporate notions of material agency into its explanations of organizational change.
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When flexible routines meet flexible technologies: affordance, constraint, and the imbrication of human and material agencies
TL;DR: In this article, a human and material agency metaphor is used to suggest how a human agency approach to technology can usefully incorporate notions of material agency into its explanations of organizational change.
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Facebook as a toolkit: A uses and gratification approach to unbundling feature use
TL;DR: Survey data collected from undergraduate students at a large Midwestern university revealed that users' motivations for using Facebook predict their use of different features, such as status updates and Wall posts, but features that share similar capabilities do not necessarily share underlying motivations for use.
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The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify three key themes related to digitization (Openness, affordances, and generativity) and outline broad research issues relating to each, and suggest that such themes that are innate to digital technologies could serve as a common conceptual platform that allows for connections between issues at different levels as well as the integration of ideas from different disciplines/areas.
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The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
TL;DR: The relationship between Stimulation and Stimulus Information for visual perception is discussed in detail in this article, where the authors also present experimental evidence for direct perception of motion in the world and movement of the self.
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Usability Engineering
TL;DR: This guide to the methods of usability engineering provides cost-effective methods that will help developers improve their user interfaces immediately and shows you how to avoid the four most frequently listed reasons for delay in software projects.
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The psychology of everyday things
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure our which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door.
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Usability inspection methods
TL;DR: Usability inspection is the generic name for a set of costeffective ways of evaluating user interfaces to find usability problems.