[IxDA Discuss] DEFINE: Affordance

[Katie Albers]

You see, here's the problem...technically an affordance does not 
"permit" a certain type of use, but rather makes it clear through the 
object's form, location and generally the circumstances of its 
existence -- that the object is to be used in a particular way.

That may very well be what you meant, but it's also an excellent 
example of why the term is less than perfectly communicative.

Katie
At 1:35 PM -0700 3/20/08, christine chastain wrote:
>I too, have become very careful in the use of the word in general but
>I find that in my work, most often the affordance of an object or
>experience is, quite simply, the qualities of that object or
>experience that permit it to be used in a specific way.

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Katie Albers
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