[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 72, Issue 27

[Jo Pierson]

'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

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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 at vub.ac.be
http://smit.vub.ac.be
'SMIT 2010, 20 years of Research, Collaboration and Friendship'


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> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:06:03 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall at yahoo.com>
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] Primary text on affordances
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> 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