TABLE 1.

Classification of affordances (adapted from Bower 2008:6).

Number	Categories of affordances	Action possibilities
1	Media affordances	Readability, writability, viewability, drawability, listenability, speakability, watchability, video-production-ability
2	Spatial affordances	Resizeability, movability
3	Temporal affordances	Accessibility, recordability, playbackability, synchronicity
4	Navigation affordances	Browsability, linkability, searchability, data-manipulation-ability
5	Emphasis affordances	Highlightability, focusability
6	Synthesis affordances	Combinability, integratability
7	Access-control affordances	Permission-ability, shareability

Source: Adapted from Bower, M., 2008, ‘Affordance analysis - Matching learning tasks with learning technologies’, Educational Media International 45(1), 3–15