Thanks, Jude
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:37 PM, CHUA Soo Meng Jude (GPL, PLS) <
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> The University has been recently discussing the importance of integrating
> ICT into our teaching and the word that gets floated around is
> "affordances".
Just a comment to note that the study of affordances, both perceivable and
not, both physical and virtual, has exploded into a huge industry,
providing a healthy way to publish, get promoted, and gain tenure in
multiple fields: design, Human-computer interaction, mechanical
engineering, for example. So much that I have given up attempting to keep
up.
There is even a Wikipedia article on the topic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
and an international conference (convened by philosophers)
http://www.philosophie.tu-darmstadt.de/goto/goto/what_affordance_affords/conference_2013.en.jsp
(I separated out the signalling component of a
perceived affordance from the affordance part in several of my books and
the article jude referred to. The latest most comprehensive treatment is in
the 2013 revision of Design of Everyday Things.)
don
Don Norman
Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego
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