Parametric Affordances What, When, How

Perceiving Affordances through Perceptual Information

The purpose of this study was to explore how users perceive the affordances of an object from specific operation tasks. These affordances can be specified in terms of perceptual information. To this end, the eye-tracking technique was employed to capture what product parts uses’ fixation focused on when using a product for specific operational tasks. The results show that, for physical-behavior...

How we remember what we can do

According to the motor simulation theory, the knowledge we possess of what we can do is based on simulation mechanisms triggered by an off-line activation of the brain areas involved in motor control. Action capabilities memory does not work by storing some content, but consists in the capacity, rooted in sensory-motor systems, to reenact off-line action sequences exhibiting the range of our po...

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Exploring Affordances Of Facebook As A Social Media Platform In Political Campaigning

In recent years we have witnessed political parties adopting social media as part of their election campaign strategy to encourage citizen participation and involvement. The purpose of this paper is to investigate what Facebook as a social media platform is perceived to afford political parties in their campaign strategy and how these intentions are reflected in the actual actions during the ca...

A Process Framework of Affordances in Design

Introduction One of the many goals of design research is to better understand the ways in which end users interact with the products of designing. This focus is not surprising—the ultimate measure of success for any design is the adoption by the user. The concept of affordance recently has been the focus of increased interest in the design research community because it captures well the relatio...