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affordance

(graphics)
A visual clue to the function of an object.
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Convertibility isn't possible unless infrastructure affordances like medical gas availability, ceiling heights, and structural strength have been planned early.
COMMON LANGUAGE: A new study looks to define what flexibility means to various healthcare stakeholders and establish a consistent framework to help achieve it
(5) Yet Erikson's style here goes beyond simple satire: it exposes some potential problematic affordances of minimalist style.
"The Riotous Conflagration of Beauteous Language": Flowery Style, Defamiliarization, and Empathie Imagination in Epic Fantasy
Next, we review existing tools and frameworks focusing on their affordances and limitations for guiding teacher educators' use of video.
Articulating Design Principles for Productive Use of Video in Preservice Education
Mohammed Sarrab's speech on "Educational affordances of IoT".
SQU gets brand new Internet of Things lab
This issue comprises articles presenting national and international research that consider the affordances of generating collaborative spaces for creative literacy learning and teaching in diverse contexts.
Editorial
Le but de notre etude consistait a presenter les potentialites qui permettent de voir de quelles facons la creativite peut se manifester selon des affordances << non-percues >> (parce qu'etrangeres aux habitudes), << non exploitees >> (par conformite culturelle) ou << non inventees >> (Glaveanu, 2007) et a degager des tensions possibles.
Creativite musicale a l'ere numerique : emergence d'une << nouvelle >> culture?
Second, by comparing NGOs' discourse on social media and websites, this study sheds light on the convergent yet distinct affordances of different ICTs for strategic health communication.
NGOs' HIV/AIDS Discourse on Social Media and Websites: Technology Affordances and Strategic Communication Across Media Platforms
The study, "Affordances after spinal-cord injury," published in the Journal of Neuropsychology, explores how individuals with SCI perceive the space around them and the properties of objects in close proximity.
Mind Over Matter
Although a focus is given to the introduction of the social media site, Twitter into the classroom for assessment, a wider consideration is given to an analysis of multi-layered media, modes and their affordances to offer rich insights into meaning-making in what are comparatively new, digital literacy practices.
Introducing Everyday 'Digital Literacy Practices' into the Classroom: An Analysis of Multi-layered Media, Modes and their Affordances
I start by examining the affordances of the cylinder used by both men, proceed to compare Hopkins's use of aposiopesis--a rhetorical figure evincing the sudden breaking off of speech--with a coeval phonograph recording, and conclude by using the critical trajectory of the past hundred years to posit future routes of study.
Phonographic Hopkins: Sound, Cylinders, Silence, and "Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves"
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