Exploratory movement and affordances in design

David C. Brown; Jonathan R.A. Maier; Thomas A. Stoffregen; Bruno Mantel

doi:10.1017/S0890060415000190

Exploratory movement and affordances in design

David C. Brown, Jonathan R.A. Maier, Thomas A. Stoffregen, Bruno Mantel

Kinesiology

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Abstract

The design community has growing familiarity with the concept of affordances and with the utility of this concept in many areas of design. Less emphasis has been placed on natural processes by which people acquire knowledge about affordances. Consequently, little is known about how design might be optimized to enable users to detect the actions that are available in a given human-machine system. We review scientific research about what people do to obtain information about affordances. We discuss implications of this research for design.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	257-265
Number of pages	9
Journal	Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing: AIEDAM
Volume	29
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0890060415000190
State	Published - Jul 28 2015

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Affordance
Exploratory Movement
Perception-Action
User-Artifact Systems

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