Affordances in Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9783031086304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Opis

The concept of affordances is being increasingly used in fields beyond ecological psychology to reveal previously unexplored interdisciplinary relationships. These fields include engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, urban theory, architecture, computer science, and much more. As the concept is adapted for its relational meaning between an agent and the environment, or object, the meaning of the term has changed to fit the customs of the adapting field. This book maps the different shades of the term and brings insights into how it is operationalized by providing short accessible essays regardless of background. Each contribution addresses big questions around this topic such as the application of the concept on ongoing research, how to measure or identify affordances, as well as other reflective questions about the future of affordances in the field.   The book is envisioned to be read by non-experts, students, and researchers from several disciplines, and fills the need for summarization across disciplines. As the many adaptations flourished from the same psychological concept, this book also aims to function as a catalyst and motivation for reinterpreting the concepts for new directions. Compared to existing books, this book aims not to span the vertical dimension of field by taking a deep dive into a niche-field—instead, this book aims to have a wide horizontal span highlighting a common concept shared by an increasing number of fields, namely affordances. As such, this book takes a different approach by attempting to summarize the different emerging applications and definitions of the concept, and make them accessible to non-experts, students, and researchers regardless of background and level.

Spis treści

1.       Zak Djebbara—An introduction

Philosophy

2.       Jelle Bruinberg

3.       Ole B. Jensen

Anthropology

4.       Silvia Torsi

Engineering

5.       Jonathan R. A. Meier

6.       Marie Frier

Architecture

7.       Cecilie Breinholm Christensen

8.       Tonino Griffero

Psychology

9.       Rob Withagen & van Dijk

10.   Guilherme de Oliveira & Tony Chemero

Psychiatry

11.   Sanneke de Haan

Biology

12.   Manuel Heras-Escribano

Neurobiology

13.   Giovanni Pezzulo / Paul Cisek

14.   Karl Friston / Thomas Parr

Computer Science

15.   Casper Hesp / Christopher Whyte

16.   Khimya Khetarpal & Doina Precup

Robotics

17.   Tamim Asfour

18.   Josh Bongard

O autorze

Zakaria Djebbara, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher who is currently engaged with understanding the relationship between architectural affordances, sensorimotor brain dynamics, and unconscious adaptive skills by an experimental and computational approach. To this end, Dr. Djebbara uses mobile EEG to analyze how architectural affordances are reflected in brain and body dynamics and question how the experience of architectural affordances shapes unconscious adaptive skills. These measures are further applied for computational modelling of experiential phenomena and adaptive behavioural skills.