The relationship between function and affordance

Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference - DETC2005

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 155-160

  Brown, David C ^a   Blessing, Lucienne ^b  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affordance; Behavior; Function; Goal; Intention

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FUNCTIONS;

AFFORDANCE; BEHAVIOR; FUNCTION; GOAL; INTENTION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 33244465016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2005-85017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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