Affordances in HCI: Toward a mediated action perspective

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 967-976

  Kaptelinin, Victor ^a,b   Nardi, Bonnie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordances; Ecological psychology; Mediated action; Technology affordances

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN ACTIONS; MEDIATED ACTION; RELATIONAL PROPERTIES;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84862094303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208541     Document Type: Conference Paper

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