Meaningful affordances

Doggone affordances: Canine perception of affordances

10 Abstract Performing any behavior requires perceiving 11 affordances—whether and how that behavior can be per12 formed. Perception of affordances exhibits action scaling— 13 choices about when to transition between two different modes 14 of behavior reflect the fit between action capabilities and en15 vironmental properties. The boundary between distances that 16 are perceived to be reachable...

Gibson's affordances.

Gibson developed an interactionist view of perception and action that focused on information that is available in the environment. He thereby rejected the still-prevalent framing assumption of factoring external-physical and internal-mental processes. The interactionist alternative, which focuses on processes of agent-situation interactions, is taken in ecological psychology as well as in recen...

Touch Affordances

The workshop “Touch Affordances” addresses a concept relevant to human computer interactions based on touch. The main topic is the challenge of applying the notion of affordances to domains related to touch interactions (e.g. (multi)touch screens, RFID & NFC, ubiquitous interfaces). The goals of this workshop are to launch a community of researchers, designers, etc. interested in this topic, to...

Meaningful And More Meaningful: A Modest Measure

We often describe lives (or parts of lives) as meaningful or as not meaningful. It is also common to characterize them as more or less meaningful. Some lives, we tend to think, are more meaningful than others. But how then can one compare lives with respect to how much meaning they contain? Can one? This paper argues that (i) only a notion of rough equality can be used when comparing different ...

Meaningful tips for achieving meaningful use.