The need of the IS-community to theorize the IT-artifact has been claimed by several authors. It has been somewhere between difficult and impossible to unequivocally agree on what the IT-artifact is. This paper argues that this is even more challenging when considering inter-organizational information systems (IOIS). After pointing to methodological and theoretical problems of researching IOIS ...

In this paper we outline a framework for the study of the mechanisms involved in the engagement of human agents with cultural affordances. Our aim is to better understand how culture and context interact with human biology to shape human behavior, cognition, and experience. We attempt to integrate several related approaches in the study of the embodied, cognitive, and affective substrates of so...

This paper conceptualizes the theoretical framework of modeling learning spaces for self-directed learning at university courses. It binds together two ideas: a) self-directed learners’ common learning spaces may be characterized as abstract niches, b) niche characteristics are collectively determined through individually perceived affordances. The implications of these ideas on the learning de...

Usually industrial robots have been fixed to one physical location and stay behind the separating fences to repeat one specific task. This is one reason that industrial robotic communities haven’t drawn attention to affordances or any other high-level cognitive concepts. However, this situation is changing recently when more robots are introduced into industrial environments to collaborate with...

Levi McNeil, Sookmyung Women’s University Previous research suggests that the affordances (van Lier, 2000) of asynchronous computer-mediated communication (ACMC) environments help reduce foreign language anxiety (FLA). However, FLA is rarely the focus of these studies and research has not adequately addressed the relationship between FLA and the affordances that students use. This study explore...

This study investigates the impact of hyperlink affordance, psychological reactance, perceived loss of freedom, perceived business tie between sites, and trust in source site, on trust in target site. Hyperlink affordance represents the extent that the Web encourages users’ behavior. Perceived loss of freedom is based on psychological reactance, which refers to the extent that users react to hy...

One of the most important sequela in persons who suffer from acquired brain injury is a behavioral disorder. To date, the primary approaches for the rehabilitation of this sequela are Applied Behavior Analysis, Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, and Comprehensive-Holistic Rehabilitation Programs. Despite this theoretical plurality, none of these approaches focuses on rehabilitating behavioral disorder...

In this paper, an affordance-based Colored Petri Net (CPN) model for representing driver behavior is proposed. We adopt a simulation-based approach and conduct an analysis of driver affordances on a highway-driving task. The computational CPN model is an extension of the initial conceptual CPN model and allows experimenters to enforce driving preferences as preferential turn probabilities for i...

This study adopts two distinct perspectives, employer and employee, to analyze the affordances of digital occupational health (DOH) systems and their appropriation. Data were collected in the context of a European collaborative research project that aims at developing a data integration infrastructure for context-aware health surveillance at the workplace. For employers the main affordance was ...

Technology affordance and constraint theory (TACT) is an emerging perspective in the Information Systems (IS) literature to understand technology use and consequences. A technology affordance (or constraint) is defined as a relational construct that depends on the interaction between technology features and individual goals (e.g.,Leonardi 2013; Majchrzak and Markus 2012; Strong et al. 2014; Vol...