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Norman on affordances…. perceived affordances… signifiers
Gaver’s technology affordances article reminded me about Norman’s quite recent rants on how the concept of affordance has been greatly misunderstood in the HCI and design communities. Thus, I reread the short Interactions articles: Donald A. Norman. 1999. Affordance, conventions, … Continue reading
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Gaver, W. (1991) Technology Affordances. In Proceedings of the CHI 1991, ACM Press: New York, 79 – 84.
Gaver presents a compact presentation of potential and possibilities of the concept of affordance in HCI/design. Gaver’s presentation is more analytic than Norman’s introduction of the concept to design world a few years earlier (Psychology of everyday things, 1998). Gaver … Continue reading
