Affordances for practice

Fayard, Anne-Laure; Weeks, John R.

doi:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2014.10.001

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“…According to Norman, users are more concerned with the effect produced by the perceived affordances than actual affordances. Thus, a good design should make users easily perceive the designed affordances in case of any possible misunderstandings [2] [17]. Norman gave a door handle example that in our cognition, a thin and vertical door handle affords pulling, while a flat and horizontal door handle is used to push.…”

Section: Origins and Development Of Affordance Theorymentioning

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“…The theory of affordances, which was defined as "the possibilities for action", pioneered by the American ecological physiologist James J. Gibson [1], has attracted the attention of a large number of scholars in the fields of psychology, human-computer interaction and design. Recently, the affordance theory has gained large popularity among IS scholars in order to bring materiality back into our understanding of organizations [2]. These researchers are dedicated to studying the relationship and interactions between technical artifacts and organizations and to exploring how the physical properties of a tool or a technology provide different modes of interaction [3] [4] [5] [6] [7].…”

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A Review of Application of Affordance Theory in Information Systems

Hui-fen¹,

Wang²,

Tang³

2018

JSSM

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This paper analyzes the status quo and tendency of the affordance theory in Information System literature, which can help us understand the relationship between technologies, users and organizations. This would pose a significant value on the related organizational changes and the use of social media. Based on the data from top journals, we reviewed 111 papers from Information Systems, Organization Studies and Management literatures on affordances according to the method of bibliometrics. From the analysis, we know that although the Information System discipline was a relatively late adopter, there is a large space to explore affordances in IS context. Based on the theoretical framework of affordances existence, perception, actualization and effects, we review the primary researches on affordances in IS discipline. In conclusion, IS scholars should focus on the affordance actualization, consider social affordances alongside technological affordances and improve our understanding of IT/IS-related organizational change and social media use in complicated social process.

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Section: Origins and Development Of Affordance Theorymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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A Review of Application of Affordance Theory in Information Systems

Hui-fen¹,

Wang²,

Tang³

2018

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“…Thus, spaces and objects situate in a web of cultural knowledge which includes, for example, rules and norms (Hutchby 2001). Accordingly, when studying affordance of space, the focus should be both on how the physical features of an environment enable or prevent some behaviour as well as on the socially constructed possibilities for collaboration practices within the space (Fayard and Weeks 2014). Consequently, when using this framework, we need to acknowledge the physical features of space, such as the distance between individuals and the layout of the space.…”

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Managing collaborative space in multi-partner projects

Kokkonen

Vaagaasar

2017

Construction Management and Economics

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Collaboration across company borders in multi-partner construction projects has proven to be challenging. An increasing number of projects aim to strengthen such collaboration by collocating project members from different companies in the same physical space. Yet we know little about the management practices required for taking advantage of such a collaborative space. To begin to remedy this shortcoming, we present an in-depth case study of a hospital construction project that applied a collaborative space and focus on the management practices influencing this space. With the help of affordance theory, we identified two types of management practices and show how they transform across project phases. These management practices included designing the physical elements of the collaborative space, and creating shared collaboration practices for the space. We contribute to the construction management literature by taking the first step in conceptualizing the connections between space, management and collaboration practices in the context of multipartner projects. We suggest managers to consider carefully what kind of collaboration practices the space is expected to enhance and plan the physical and social space to support it.

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“…Habitus is a way of conceptualizing how social structures influence practice without reifying those structures or falling into the traps of voluntarism, determinism, subjectivism, and objectivism [17]. Habitus tends to generate practices that are positively sanctioned as reasonable and commonsense.…”

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The Research on the Path of Rural Bank’s Transformation Based on Bourdieu*’s Practice Theory: A Case Study of Wuwei Rural Bank in China

Huifen¹,

Chen²,

Zheng³

2017

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More than 1000 Chinese rural banks' asset size exceeded trillion in 2015, but they have problems in low operating efficiency, information asymmetry between rural banks and villagers, poor public trust, insufficient absorption capacity and low social awareness. Should rural banks still stick to the rural areas? What's the way to develop the rural financial market at present? With Bourdieu's practice theory, this paper analyses the transformation practice of "the Bank-Government miaxture" model of the Wuwei Rural Bank in China. The Wuwei Rural Bank plants habitus, field and capital (mainly symbolic capital and social capital) into the transformation practice. This paper benefits from a particular ethnography enriched by the oral reviews and engaged observations in two years of fieldwork. Thirty-four depth interviews were conducted, involving the Wuwei Rural Bank's staffs, the mayors of 21 towns, convenience stores staffs, school principals, clinic employees and many villagers. Analysing the capital and changing the habitus of the villagers makes the transformation successful. It gives a new perspective for the path of rural bank's transformation.

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Affordances for practice

Cited by 129 publications

References 53 publications

A Review of Application of Affordance Theory in Information Systems

A Review of Application of Affordance Theory in Information Systems

Managing collaborative space in multi-partner projects

The Research on the Path of Rural Bank’s Transformation Based on Bourdieu*’s Practice Theory: A Case Study of Wuwei Rural Bank in China

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