The Psychology of Everyday Things, where he introduced the term "affordance" to describe physical features that "afford" a user control over a function - in this case, opening a door. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The concept of "affordance" has captured the imagination of designers. ❋ Unknown (2008)
(There are entries for the related concepts affordance and emergence, however). ❋ Unknown (2010)
Conversely, URLs have the opposite default affordance — people can go look at them and see what you have said about yourself, and computers can go and visit them and discover other ways to interact with what you have published, or ask you permission for more. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Sort of echoing @Guillaume it does seem to me that from a branding perspective the name implies an affordance that is backwards. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Of course this is a pain and close to impossible for anyone to find, but likely a better solution than adding a fourth UI affordance on the title bar. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A successful pretending object has to delicately balance pretending affordance with not making you look like an idiot. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Thus, the Web is rolling back modernity's affordance of mass access to the best of culture -- and may, Keen fears, result in the restoration of a feudal class system when it comes to culture and knowledge. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Just like the presence of the claims processors that Wenger wrote about in the office of the insurance company and their ability and being allowed to talk to each other, the platform of twitter and its affordance make mutual engagement possible. ❋ Jo McLeay (2008)
And it is un-arguable from a practical perspective that this is part of the game as it is an affordance that the game artifact provides players. ❋ Unknown (2007)
You have a situation where, organizationally, a competitive, "means to an end" set of relationships can arise, combined with an interest in making use of any affordance like voice that will increase efficiency. ❋ Unknown (2007)
VWs offer an affordance for some free, creative action, but yes, as Ren said, most people just reproduce their internalized ideas. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I posted elsewhere about mobile affordances, and I think you're right about most of mobile learning isn't different than desktop, with a tradeoff of bandwidth for convenience, but there is one other unique mobile affordance. ❋ Clive Shepherd (2007)
But the affordance within Twitter of both mobile and web, that not only lets Anil use it he is Web-only is what helps me manage attention overload. ❋ Glyn Moody (2007)
Affordances, usually associated with human-computer interaction, industrial design, and environmental psychology, is here seen as the flipside of externalities: one person's externality is another's affordance. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Web services provide an affordance for hooking in to Amazon's business process (not to mention Amazon being it's own biggest user); Ajax style interaction with a web application's data affords a peek at the underlying data structure and associated atomic actions; whether and how one exposes the internal workings of a piece of consumer hardware can mean the difference between a TiVo and a WebTV. ❋ Unknown (2005)
