Missing and declining affordances: Are these appropriate concepts?

Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 26-34

  De Souza, Clarisse Sieckenius ^a   Prates, Raquel Oliveira ^a,b   Carey, Tom ^c  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affordances; Communicability evaluation; Semiotic engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010313914     PISSN: 01046500     EISSN: 01046500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-65002000000200004     Document Type: Article

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