Identifying affordances

Proceedings of ICED 2007, the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn DS 42, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Maier, Jonathan R A ^a   Fadel, Georges M ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordances

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION; ENGINEERING DESIGN; FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; PERCEPTUAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EXPERIMENTS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84862623552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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