[Air-L] Primary text on affordances

Huatong Sun huatongs at gmail.com
Mon Jul 26 14:10:14 PDT 2010


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 at 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/
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