User interface design
The design of virtual environments
The design of virtual environments
Envisioning Cyberspace: Designing 3d Electronic Spaces
Envisioning Cyberspace: Designing 3d Electronic Spaces
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Representing cognitive activity in complex tasks
Human-Computer Interaction
User interface affordances in a planning representation
Human-Computer Interaction
On the Ecological/Representational Structure of Virtual Environments
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Current Issues in Computing and Philosophy
Can I pass?: using affordances to measure perceived size in virtual environments
Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization
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Artifacts in an environment afford to their observers utility and function directly through specific object characteristics (e.g., mediums, surfaces, substances). Virtual environments (VEs) similarly seek to afford specific utility to their users, whether it is for training, education, or entertainment, thus it seems natural to consider basing VE designs on affordances. Such affordance-based design should yield significant benefits by providing designs that behave in more understandable and intuitive manners. These designs should be easier to learn, adapt better to user tasks, and frustrate users less by allowing use of the same skills acquired via real-world interactions. In order to realize affordance-based VE designs, the types of appropriate affordances and means of realizing these affordances must be identified. Currently, however, affordances lack a theoretical and operational basis for such application. The present paper suggests functions that affordances should support and provides a conceptual model for realizing affordances based on sensory-stimuli-substitution schemes.