[Air-L] Primary text on affordances

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

It starts in psychology and moves into design and HCI. Along the way it changes from 'real' affordances to perceived affordances (see the later Norman pieces). Also useful is Bradner et al's idea of social affordances.  /Caroline


Gibson, J. J. (1979). The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Norman, D. (1988). The Design of Everyday Things. NY: Basic Books. 
But see also
•	http://jnd.org/dn.mss/affordances_and_design.html
•	http://jnd.org/dn.mss/affordance_conventions_and_design_part_2.html

Gaver, W. W. (1991). ‘Technology affordances’, in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Reaching Through Technology. New Orleans, Louisiana. pp. 79-84. 

Gaver, W. W. (1996). ‘Situating action II: Affordances for interaction: The social is material for design’, Ecological Psychology, 8: 111-129.

"Social affordances"

Bradner, E., Kellogg, W., and Erickson, T. (1999). ‘The adoption and use of “Babble”: A field study of chat in the workplace’. Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Copenhagen, Denmark. pp. 139-158. Retrieved April 7, 2010 from http://www.research.ibm.com/SocialComputing/Papers/AdoptionOfBabble.htm




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>Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:06:03 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall at yahoo.com>  
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>Dear AIR-ERS -
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>I have some colleagues here who have recently become interested in the concept of affordances (they are working in the field of visual arts).
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>I know the term comes from engineering but if anyone has the primary reference at their fingertips it would be much appreciated.
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>Cheers, Denise
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>(writing from the island of Bali where the the celebrations of the Kite Festival has filled the skies each afternoon with amazing kites)
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>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/
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Caroline Haythornthwaite

Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Institute of Education, University of London (2009-10)

Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820 (haythorn at illinois.edu)