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Technology affordances
1991
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems Reaching through technology - CHI '91
Ecological approaches to psychology suggest succinct accounts of easily-used artifacts. Affordances are properties of the world that are compatible with and relevant for people's interactions. When affordances are perceptible, they offer a direct link between perception and action; hidden and false affordances lead to mistakes. Complex actions can be understood in terms of groups of affordances that are sequential in time or nested in space, and in terms of the abilities of different media to
doi:10.1145/108844.108856
dblp:conf/chi/Gaver91
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