PERCEPTION & ACTION
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 JJ Gibson).
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/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.
METAPHORDANCE
Metaphorically, visualisation is just like a good dance...
METAFFORDANCES enhance affordances.
