Abstract Drawing from the social capital framework and socioemotional selectivity theory, this study examines how individuals’ future time perspective (FTP) alters their processes, which further influences well-being. A two-wave survey was conducted across WeChat users possessing different FTPs. The findings showed that bonding bridging accumulation were attributed to differential affordances, ...

The affordance perspective to technology research aims to offer a definition of technology that bridges between previous positivist and constructivist perspectives. To study technology from an affordance angle, it needs to be defined and extracted. This study aims to develop a better understanding of technology by conceptualizing and dimensionalizing technology affordances. To demonstrate the p...

Affordance theory has promise for studying technology’s role in organizational change. By distinguishing properties of technology and their affordances in relation to its users, it facilitates the examination of technological consequences whilst avoiding technological determinism. This paper argues that it is useful to explore affordances and consequences of their actualization (or the lack of)...

Business intelligence (BI) becomes increasingly important and is an evolving topic in research and practice. The evolvement of BI, the flexibility of BI systems, and their context-dependency entail diverse and partially contradicting results on BI system use and outcomes. This study examines how and why BI systems are used differently and what the entailing outcomes are. With the theoretical le...

Humans can perceive affordances both for themselves and for others, and affordance perception is a function of perceptual-motor experience involved in playing a sport. Two experiments investigated the enhanced affordance perception of athletes. In Experiment 1, basketball players and nonbasketball players provided perceptual reports for sports-relevant (maximum standing-reach and reach-with-jum...

Whilst it is generally accepted as a positive criterion, affordance only gives the weakest of hints for interactive systems designers. This paper shows how useful it is to consider affordance as generated by a correspondence between program symmetries and user interface symmetries. Symmetries in state spaces (for instance, as might be visualised in statecharts) can be carried through to user in...

This paper describes the systematic design method for Product-Service Systems (PSS) where service and product elements are integrated using affordances. In the PSS design method, a service element is composed of the activities from the service blueprint and the functions from the function analysis. The service elements contain the service providers and receivers and their activities and are to ...

in this study the effect of input parameters of the edm process (pulse on-time, duty cycle and tool polarity), on the material removal rate (mrr), tool wear ratio (twr) and maximum surface roughness (rmax) in the machining aisi h13 tool steel has been studied. this study shows that increasing the duty cycle in the two conditions of tool polarity, material removal rate and the maximum surface ro...

Expressive AI is a hybrid practice, combining artificial intelligence (AI) research and art making, that simultaneously focuses on the negotiation of meaning mediated by an art object and the internal structure of AI systems. These two apparently disparate views are unified through the concept of affordance: negotiation of meaning is conditioned by interpretive affordances while the internal st...