Don Norman’s theory is that the more visible something is, the more likely a user sees and interacts with it. Interaction designers must balance visibility prioritization based on user needs and business goals.A typical example of visibility is prioritizing navigation links on mobile devices. What...
This paper investigates the much-discussed Babylonian incantation bowls inspired by approaches from thing theory, such as the concept of affordance, and from cognitive studies, such as the distributed cognition hypothesis. For once, the material aspects of the bowl amulets and...
(derived from affordance theory, cf. Gibson 1979/2014, 1982) Like any human behaviour, social appropriateness is made up of the valence of the situation and the individual reaction possibilities of the individual. (derived from the discussion of valence, cf. Koffka 1962) Social appropriateness is...
how the labour and workers behind these projects are managed, how cities are governed and who lives in them. The difference with respect to the past is that today we think we can produce a territory that is not simply a support for the economy, as was...
Affordance theory is only now starting to account forcultural diversityin the ways in which designed objects shape practices and experiences. The studies we have reviewed show tableware influences how we eat. Size, shape, weight, colour and aesthetics all play a part in our experience of eating....
I can see what you feel, but I can't deal with it: Impaired theory of mind in depression Even though unipolar depression is associated with considerably impaired social functioning, only a few studies so far have investigated Theory of Mind (To... L Wolkenstein,M Sch?Nenberg,E Schirm,.....
Community has for so long now been so fundamental a focus of my research, much of it systematised under the head of social positioning theory. Community—by which I understand a social totality of relationally organised human persons and other entities—is a basic unit, or the ground, of al...
Flow theory Flow is a state of mind in which people find themselves extremely devoted to their current activity. Flow theory was first proposed by Csikszentmihalyi (1975) to explain how complete engagement in an activity induces a special mental state in which the level of concentration allows the...
2015). Since sensory perception is traditionally viewed to be even more beyond conscious control than higher cognitive functions, efforts have been limited to clarifying the agentive status of the latter. There are only a few exceptions to this, such as exploring the affordance character of ...
theory literature-review method according to Wolfswinkel et al. (2013). Yet, there is no consensus in research nor practice on one nomenclature of CDR; thus, employing grounded theory methodologies to develop a theoretical contribution is suitable. The open coding regarding concrete fields of ...