1 The seminal work on affordances is “The Theory of Affordances” by James Gibson, in Perceiving, Acting, and Knowing by R. E. Shaw & J. Bransford (Eds), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1977; and The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception by James Gibson, Houghton Mifflin, 1979. A popular treatment of affordances can be found in The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman, Doubleday, 1990.
2 Note that the term affordance refers to the properties of a physical object or environment only. When images of physical objects or environments are used (e.g., image of a button), the images, themselves, do not afford anything. The knowledge of button affordances exists in the mind of the perceiver based on experience with physical buttons—it is not a property ...
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