Group Communication

Glossary

Adaptive structuration (Chapter 5)

A theory that focuses on how organizations and groups utilize technology, focusing on the structures of the technology and the way users appropriate those structures.

Ad-hoc emergency teams (Chapter 22)

(also called action teams) They are temporary groups of experts, often from different disciplines. Formed to rapidly respond to specific emergency situations, such as a cardiac arrest.

Affordance (Chapter 21)

An affordance involves the way a technology is perceived and used by people. It involves the potential for action users perceive in a technology.

AI transparency (Chapter 24)

The quality of an interface pertaining to its abilities to afford a human's comprehension about an AI agent's intent, performance, ...