'Affordances' is indeed an interesting and powerful concept, used more and more from an interdisciplinary perspective. Besides the excellent references made to the seminal works, you could also check out the following overview texts on the notion: * Greeno, James G. (1994) 'Gibson's affordances', in Psychological Review, 101 (2), 336-342. * McGrenere, Joanna & Ho, Wayne (2000) Affordances: clarifying and evolving a concept. Paper presented at 'Graphics Interface 2000', May 2000, Montreal. In addition also Paul Dourish has discussed this notion clearly in his inspiring book: * Dourish, Paul (2001) Where the action is: the foundations of embodied interaction. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 233. Kind regards, Jo ------------------------------------- Jo Pierson, Ph.D. Senior Researcher IBBT - SMIT, Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication Vrije Universiteit Brussel Offices: Pleinlaan 9, 2nd floor B - 1050 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 2 629 16 27 Fax: +32 2 629 17 00 E-mail: jo.pierson@vub.ac.be http://smit.vub.ac.be 'SMIT 2010, 20 years of Research, Collaboration and Friendship' Op 26-jul-10, om 00:00 heeft air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org het volgende geschreven:
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:06:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall@yahoo.com> To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Primary text on affordances Message-ID: <486678.19065.qm@web112713.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
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