Overview
Approaches with the purpose to function as a multidisciplinary catalyst
Provides an accessible overview to to concept of affordances and application without field-specific jargon
Functions as motivation and provocation for new and creative ways to apply the concept to cause significant advances
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Experiential and Interactive View
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Front Matter
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Engineering and Computational View
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Affordances in Everyday Life
Book Subtitle: A Multidisciplinary Collection of Essays
Editors: Zakaria Djebbara
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08629-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08583-3Published: 28 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08630-4Published: 29 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08629-8Published: 27 August 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 222
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychology, general, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Community and Environmental Psychology, Arts