With the advance of inclusive city and child-friendly construction, children’s opportunities to access nature have gained increasing concern. This study explored play preference children aged between 3 12 years old when they interact with plants, as well corresponding environmental characteristics, four community parks in Tianjin examples. It collected data on behaviors, factors surroundings co...

PERCEPTION AND ACTION ARE TIGHTLY LINKED objects may be perceived not only in terms of visual features, but also in terms of possibilities for action. Previous studies showed that when a centrally located object has a salient graspable feature (e.g., a handle), it facilitates motor responses corresponding with the feature's position. However, such so-called affordance effects have been criticiz...

Affordances (unit utility, functional and topological relationships) and semantic scene understanding are key to building a generic, scalable and cognitive architecture for visual perception. ‘Affordance based object recognition’ or recognition based on affordance features is an important step in this regard. In this paper, we extend the scope of affordance features to define ‘Conceptual Equiva...

Bingham, Schmidt, and Rosenblum (Bingham, G. P., Schmidt, R. C., & Rosenblum, L. D. (1989). Hefting for a maximum distance throw: A smart perceptual mechanism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 15, 507-528) found that skilled throwers could heft objects and select the weight in each size that they could throw to a maximum distance. Bingham et al. hypothesized...

A detection scheme is presented for maneuvering affordance in noisy imagery. By introducing a mental maneuvering process within an intentional coordinate system, image features are assumed to be represented in terms of directional Fourier images. The detectability of affordance patterns has been verified through experimental studies.

In this study, we propose a research model to assess the effect of a mobile health (mHealth) app on exercise motivation and physical activity of individuals based on the design and self-determination theory. The research model is formulated from the perspective of motivation affordance and gamification. We will discuss how the use of specific gamified features of the mHealth app can trigger/aff...

The theory of affordances, a conceptual pillar of the ecological approach to perception and action, has the potential to become a guiding principle for research on perception and action in sport. Affordances are opportunities for action. They describe the environment in terms of behaviors that are possible at a given moment under a given set of conditions. Affordances capture the tight coupling...

This paper argues that concepts derived from affordance theories are highly useful in understanding the role of online technologies in learning. However, it is suggested that the value of this approach is maximised when the focus is moved away from the inherent properties of the technologies to the opportunities for learning provided by the total context in which the technologies are embedded. ...

Affordance and the brain's mirrored systems are closely linked, according to neuroscientific psychological findings. In spite of this, there many aspects both standalone their representations that we still do not fully comprehend. this paper, provide an analysis goal-oriented neurophysiological selection representation in affordances. We aim at discussing different affordance regulations prefro...

Abstract A simulation-based approach is proposed to study the protective actions taken by residents during nuclear emergencies using cognitive findings. Human perception-based behaviors are not heavily incorporated in evacuation for despite their known importance. This proposes a generic framework of behavior simulation, accordance with ecological concept affordance theory and formal representa...