We address the problem of predicting affordances for dense 3D geometry scans of real-world scenes. Using an RGBD camera setup we observe people interacting with objects and learn the correlation between body part positions and interacted geometry. We encode this information as affordance maps over 3D geometry and predict affordances for novel scenes where no observations are available.

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 ...

Humans demonstrate remarkable capabilities to use a variety of grasp strategies for a given object depending on the context of the task often referred to as grasp affordances in dexterous hands. The interplay among the nervous system, the morphology of the human hand, and the properties of the object to demonstrate these advanced grasp affordance skills are not well understood yet. A key hypoth...

This paper presents a study of the relationship between Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) parameters on the EDM efficiency factors using a full factorial design, based on pulse on-time, duty cycle and tool polarity parameters in EDM machining of AISI H13 tool steel. The results show that, in positive polarity, the plasma flushing efficiency and pulse efficiency increase according to the puls...

We present a study that explores the affordance evoked by sound and sound-gesture mappings. In order to do this, we make use of a sensor system with minimal form factor in a user study that minimizes cultural association. The present study focuses on understanding how participants describe sounds and gestures produced while playing designed sonic interaction mappings. This approach seeks to mov...

Convincing arguments for using critical realism as an underpinning for theories of IT-associated organizational change have appeared in the IS literature. A central task in developing such theories is to uncover the generative mechanisms by which IT is implicated in organizational change processes, but to do so, we must explain how critical realism’s concept of generative mechanisms applies in ...

Affordances, as for example grasping possibilities, are known to play a role in the guidance of human attention but have not been considered in artificial attention systems so far. Extending our earlier work, we investigate the combination of affordance estimation and visual saliency in an artificial visual attention model. Different models based on saliency, affordance estimation, or their com...