We address the problem of affordance reasoning in diverse scenes that appear in the real world. Affordances relate the agent’s actions to their effects when taken on the surrounding objects. In our work, we take the egocentric view of the scene, and aim to reason about action-object affordances that respect both the physical world as well as the social norms imposed by the society. We also aim ...

We propose a theory of communicative interactions based on the idea that it is constitutive of interpersonal communication to create and manage a fragment of social reality. We define such a fragment in terms of joint commitments of the interactants, and analyze how these commitments are made in a conversation. We distinguish between three layers of joint commitments: those that regulate the em...

Judgments of affordances, the potential actions that an observer can carry out within an environment, require observers to relate information about their body to information in the environment. Although humans can accurately judge affordances for others, it is unknown whether other people's capability to act influences one's own affordance judgments. Based on theoretical accounts and recent emp...

iv CHAPTER 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 Dissertation Organization 3 References 4 CHAPTER 2. CONCEPTUALIZING AFFORDANCES FROM A COGNITIVE VIEWPOINT 5 Abstract 5 Introduction 5 Overview of Article 5 Why Consider Affordances? 6 The Original Meaning of Affordance 7 Different Theoretical Views of Affordance 9 Our Perspective and Motivation 10 A Cognitive System Perspective 14 Working Memory 15 The Impa...

The portability of a mobile device and the ubiquity of mobile Internet provide e-market users with more opportunities of access to e-commerce sites throughout a day. In this paper, we examine the access affordance of mobile technologies by analyzing the changes in purchase time dispersion of e-marketplace users after their adoption of mobile channel. By analyzing a large archival dataset includ...

We propose a novel system for action sequence planning based on combination of affordance recognition and neural forward model predicting the effects execution. By performing predicted futures, we avoid reliance explicit effect definitions multi-step planning. Because learns from experience data, can foresee not just canonical an affordance, but also situation-specific side-effects. This allows...

children's development is shaped based on a combination of environmental, organism, physiological and genetic factors. recent researches on the development of children and toddlers convincingly show that the best growth level happens in a motivating environment and a powerful support. this study aimed at evaluating the effect of an environment affordance intervention on social development ...

Three experiments investigated how visual objects prime the actions they afford. The principal concern was whether such visuomotor priming depends upon a concurrent visual input--as would be expected if it is mediated by on-line dorsal system processes. Experiment 1 showed there to be essentially identical advantages for making afforded over non-afforded responses when these were made to object...

Strategic alliances require mutual trust and collaboration between organizations. To increase alliance performance, organizations in a strategic are more likely to interpret each other’s equivocal behaviors positive way sustain the stability of relationship. Different from traditional mechanisms build interorganizational trust, blockchain facilitates among partners via its technology advantages...

The affordance perspective to technology research aims to offer a definition of technology that bridges between previous positivist and constructivist perspectives. To study technology from an affordance angle, it needs to be defined and extracted. This study aims to develop a better understanding of technology by conceptualizing and dimensionalizing technology affordances. To demonstrate the p...