We use the notion of affordances as a framework to propose a developmental method that enables a robot to ground symbolic planning mechanisms in its continuous sensorimotor experiences. The method allows the robot to learn object affordance relations which can be used to predict the change in the percept of the object when a certain behavior is applied. Our robot experiments has shown that a ro...

This article suggests a theory of egocentric semantic reference systems for human observations of affordances that can be used to semantically account for subjective human observations on the web. Based on the perceptual theory of affordances, which suggests that humans perceive the potential actions the environment affords, an egocentric semantic reference frame is established, which is anchor...

Our thesis in this paper is that, in order to appreciate the interplay between cognitive (goal-directed) and physical performance in tool use, it is necessary to determine the role that representations play in the use of tools. We argue that rather being solely a matter of internal (mental) representation, tool use makes use of the external representations that define the human-environment-tool...

The concept of affordance is popular in the HCI community but not well understood. Donald Norman appropriated the concept of affordances from James J. Gibson for the design of common objects and both implicitly and explicitly adjusted the meaning given by Gibson. There was, however, ambiguity in Norman’s original definition and use of affordances which he has subsequently made efforts to clarif...

Perceived affordance is utilized as a theoretical lens to explore factors influencing consumers’ positive or negative perceptions of Web advertisements, which is one type of information artifacts. Content and form are two main attributes shared by information artifacts. Based on the literature review and content analysis, a conceptual framework is proposed to shed light on perceived affordance ...

This work creates a model of the value different external viewpoints robot performing tasks. The current state practice is to use teleoperated assistant provide view task being performed by primary robot; however, choice ad hoc and does not always lead improved performance. research applies psychomotor approach develop relative quality using Gibsonian affordances. In this approach, for affordan...

The IS research community is still struggling with a proper theorisation of the IT-artefact. The debate manifests in questions regarding the effect of IT (Markus and Silver 2008), the identity of systems (Reimers et al. 2009), or more generally the appropriate theoretical tools for studying these systems. Part of the quest for theorising the IT-artefact is whether technology possesses inherent ...

Situated Action claims that action is guided by an environment featuring objects, including technologies, whose use is transparent to us. Work on affordances perceived properties of objects which, in the context of a given course of action, tell us directly what those objects are for helps explain this. It is argued that an affordance helps make a technology transparent because it is a function...

The simple perception of an object can potentiate an associated action. This affordance effect depends heavily on the action context in which the object is presented. In recent years, psychologists, psychiatrists, and phenomenologists have agreed that subjects with schizophrenia may not perceive the affordances of people or objects that could lead to a loss of ease in their actions. We examined...

Understanding information technology (IT) use is vital for the systems (IS) discipline due to its substantial positive and negative consequences. In recent years, IT personal purposes has grown rapidly. Although voluntary can often reflect fun, technostress a common consequence of such use. When left unaddressed, cause serious harm users. However, prior research not explained how forms over tim...