This conceptual paper argues that for sustainable product innovation to make a contribution addressing sustainability issues, we need understand not only why consumers adopt products but also what makes them use these in way. To explain how specific features can change the ways which engage with adoption and usage phase, draw on affordance theory. Affordances refer potential agentic action of u...

The concept of affordances, with its emphasis to the interactions between the robot and the environment, is highly relevant for epigenetic robotics. However, the use of the concept in robotics has been rather rudimentary, mostly confined to an inspiration source. In this paper, we present a new formalization of the concept, based partially on the recent formalizations proposed in Ecological Psy...

The term “affordance” denotes the behavioral meaning of objects. We propose a cognitive architecture for the detection of affordances in the visual modality. This model is based on the internal simulation of movement sequences. For each movement step, the resulting sensory state is predicted by a forward model, which in turn triggers the generation of a new (simulated) motor command by an inver...