User engagement with GAI tools is filtered through imagined affordances rather than direct encounter with software functionalities¶
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q1 i? If a user does not imagine the software can be used for a purpose, they will not use the technology that way, so perceptions are integral to technology use. → Kahn P 2026
Evidence¶
Kahn P 2026¶
Kahn P, Carrigan M, Wyman I, Liu R, Smith P, Andonegui AR, Murtagh L and Song F (2026) Still emerging: understanding Generative AI use in Higher Education. Front. Educ. 11:1885253. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2026.1885253
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Theoretical argument in the literature review, drawing on Nagy and Neff (2015) and Archer (2000): affordances manifest through interaction rather than inhering in software. The article offers this as a conceptual argument, not a tested result, and states the study takes perceptions as indicators of how affordances are imagined.
"user engagement is always filtered through imagined affordances rather than being an immediate encounter with functionalities and constraints that are objectively part of the software. Indeed, the relational character of affordances complicates objectivity"
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User engagement with GAI tools is filtered through imagined affordances rather than direct encounter with software functionalities |
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User engagement with GAI tools is filtered through imagined affordances rather than direct encounter with software functionalities |
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