PERCEPTION & ACTION
Every ENVIRONMENT allows or affords various ACTIONS to an organism;
PERCEPTION 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 ENVIRONEMENT.
VISUALISATION
TECHNOLOGY can enhance perception - visualising virtual
affordances and virtual actions;
VISUALISATION provides affordances about affordances,
or a...
METAFFORDANCE
METAFFORDANCE: an affordance about an affordance ("meta"
affordance);
Virtual and augmented reality technology is a metaffordance - a technology affordance
that enhances the real world affordance.
METAPHORDANCE
Visualising the future is more than a metaphor;
METAFFORDANCES amplify the REAL affordances.
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ICPA 12 - Int. Conf. on Perception and Action
(Proceedings avail.; organised by us)