Towards Affordance-Based Control in Catching Fly Balls: The Affordance of Catchability

Towards Affordance-based Robot Control

This article summarizes the objectives and the program of the Dagstuhl seminar 06231, “Towards Affordance-based Robot Control”. It was held from June 5 to June 9, 2006, at the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science Schloss Dagstuhl near Wadern, Germany.

Towards Affordance Based Scene Understanding

Scene Understanding is among the grand challenges of computer vision. We consider indoor scenes in 3D space and motivate an affordance based approach to autonomously discover common objects. Relationship between visual entities and their supported affordances is modelled as a clustering problem in a feature space reflecting human embodiment. In the current scope of work we only consider geometr...

On catching fly balls.

Affordance-Based Control of Visually Guided Action

The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast existing theoretical approaches to understanding the visual guidance of action and to introduce a new approach. The focus is on tasks, such as steering, braking, and intercepting, that are (more or less) continuously guided on the basis of visual information. The prominent approach, information-based control, captures important aspects of beh...

Towards an Affordance-Based Theory of Collaborative Action (CoAct)

Collaborative Action provides a novel approach to modeling interaction among users and machines and IT-mediated collaboration among people to solve problems. CoAct extends the notions of affordance and moves away from idiosyncratic, subjective mental models of the world to the notion that actors with similar capacities to act can potentially discern similar action possibilities in the world. It...