PERCEPTION & ACTION
Every environment allows or affords various future ACTIONS to
an organism;
Properties of the environment that afford actions are the "AFFORDANCE"
properties;
PERCEPTION is about seeing what actions will be possible;
Affordances must be PERCEIVABLE properties of the environment;
PERCEPTION is seeing the AFFORDANCES of the ENVIRONMENT.
VISUALISATION
TECHNOLOGY enhances perception - visualising virtual affordances
and virtual actions;
VISUALISATIONS provide affordances about affordances,
or a...
METAFFORDANCE
METAFFORDANCE: an affordance about an affordance ("meta"
affordance);
Virtual/augmented reality technology uses metaffordances - the affordances
of the virtual world to inform and enhance the real world.
METAPHOR DANCE
Visualisation of future actions is not just a metaphor dance!
METAFFORDANCES amplify the real affordances.
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ICPA 12 - Int. Conf. on Perception and Action (Proceedings avail.;
organised by us)
