Affordance and Metaffordance

• Every environment offers or affords various actions to an organism
• Perception simply is seeing what actions are possible
• Properties of the environment that afford actions are called the "affordance" properties
• Affordances must be perceivable properties — for learning and evolution
• Perception is seeing the affordances of the environment
• The profound insight of affordances is due to J. J. Gibson

• Technology can enhance perception — visualising virtual affordances and virtual actions
• Visualisation provides affordances about affordances, or a…

• Metaffordance: an affordance about an affordance ("meta" affordance)
• Virtual/augmented reality technology is a metaffordance — a technology affordance that amplifies the original affordance

Affordances invite you to act…
Metaffordances invite you to INTERACT — they act back.

Metaphorically, visualisation is just like a good dance…
Metaffordances enhance affordances.

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