Analyzing the Concept of Affordances in Information Systems
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作者
Karen Stendal,Devinder Thapa,Arto Lanamäki
出处
期刊:Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences日期:2016-01-01被引量:24
标识
DOI:10.1109/hicss.2016.651
摘要
The affordance concept has penetrated the Information Systems (IS) scholarship as a lens for theorizing the relationship between technology and its users. However, what exactly is it that the researchers are trying to capture when they use this concept? For this essay, we carefully read IS literature to reveal underlying assumptions behind this lens and how it has been adopted. This article reveals three assumptions: 1) whether affordances are identified as intended prior use or emerging in action, 2) whether affordances are functional or non-functional, and 3) whether affordances are potential or actual. We dig into these assumptions and suggest alternatives for further enquiry.