Hi Denise, I reviewed the conceptual development of affordance in Chapter 2 of my dissertation (2004) and proposed an activity-based affordance structure consisting of instrumental affordance and social affordance for mobile text messaging research (see the section of “affordances”). The dissertation can be accessed at this URL: http://www.localisation.ie/resources/Awards/Theses/sun_diss.pdf In that section I studied the origin of the affordance and its uptake in the field of HCI (Gibson, Norman, and Gaver), the development of affordance for social interactions (Bradner and Hutchby), and the view of activity-based affordance (Baerentsen & Trettvik, Albrechtsen, Andersen, Bødker, & Pejtersen), most of which are already recommended by people on this list. I’m adding what are not mentioned yet: Albrechtsen, H., Andersen, H. H. K., Bødker, S., & Pejtersen, A. M. (2001). Affordances in Activity Theory and Cognitive Systems Engineering: Riso National Laboratory, Roskilde. Baerentsen, K., & Trettvik, J. (2002). An Activity Theory Approach to Affordance. In O.W. Bertelsen, S. Bodker & K. Kuuti (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 51-60). New York: ACM Press. Dourish, P. (2001). Whre the action is. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Vyas, D., Chisalita, C., & van de Veer, G. (2006). Affordance in interaction. In Proceedings of the 13th Eurpoean conference on Cognitive ergonomics (pp. 92-99). New York: ACM Press. The last two items were covered in my new book on cross-cultural technology design that will come out next year. The book has a revised discussion of technology affordance and regards affordance as dialogic relation and mediation property. Hope this helps. Best regards, Huatong ============================ Huatong Sun Assistant Professor English Department & Interactive Media Studies Program Miami University, OH On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Denise N. Rall <denrall@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear AIR-ERS -
I have some colleagues here who have recently become interested in the concept of affordances (they are working in the field of visual arts).
I know the term comes from engineering but if anyone has the primary reference at their fingertips it would be much appreciated.
Cheers, Denise
(writing from the island of Bali where the the celebrations of the Kite Festival has filled the skies each afternoon with amazing kites)
Denise N. Rall, PhD. Special Projects, Faculty of Arts & Science Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW AUSTRALIA Mobile +(61)(0)438 233344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ Popular Culture Association of Australia & Zealand POPCANNZ Conf. Auckland, New Zealand July 2011
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