Recognising Affordances in Predicted Futures to Plan With Consideration of Non-Canonical Affordance Effects

qfd planning with cost consideration in fuzzy environment

در عصر حاضر که رقابت بین سازمان ها بسیار گسترش یافته است، مطالعه و طرحریزی سیستم های تولیدی و خدماتی به منظور بهینه سازی عملکرد آنها اجتناب ناپذیر می باشد. بخش عمده ای از رقابت پذیری سازمان ها نتیجه رضایتمندی مشتریان آنها است. میزان موفقیت سازمان های امروزی به تلاش آنها در جهت شناسایی خواسته ها و نیازهای مشتریان و ارضای این نیازها بستگی دارد. از طرفی کوتاه کردن زمان ارائه محصول/خدمات به مشتریان...

Canonical affordances in context

James Gibson’s concept of affordances was an attempt to undermine the traditional dualism of the objective and subjective. Gibson himself insisted on the continuity of “affordances in general” and those attached to human artifacts. However, a crucial distinction needs to be drawn between “affordances in general” and the “canonical affordances” that are connected primarily to artifacts. Canonica...

Affordance Ontology: Towards a Unified Description of Affordances as Events

An argument is developed that suggests the concept of affordances can best facilitate the pursuit of new knowledge if it’s defined as an event. The first description initially generated by James J. Gibson was deceptively vague. This has led to several attempts by additional researchers to re-describe it. These efforts fall short of describing a concept that is consistent with both the historica...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

To Afford or Not to Afford: A New Formalization of Affordances Toward Affordance-Based Robot Control