Have you ever operated a door handle incorrectly? The first ever study investigating this phenomenon and its implications for egress drops April 6th in BJMB. I’ll post the link when it drops! #Affordances #PerceptionAction
Turns out... there's a secret special hidden socket part flap under the main socket!
Can you see it?! I dunno, man - why do they make things complicated?!
Anyway, the best way to learn about electric vehicles is to be Wrong On Threads.
#design #affordances #PICNIC #usererror
Design books
How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things by Jenny L. Davis
#Booksky #books #designbooks #affordances
📢New #SI published!!!
Edited by @rosalores.bsky.social & @pmurduenas.bsky.social, articles explore new forms of disseminating scientific knowledge.
In this contemporary context, new dynamics & the role of #affordances are explored.
Contents in 🧵
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Slide with the quote “Does the user perceive that clicking on that location is a meaningful, useful action to perform?” credited to Donald Norman.
A quote about #affordances that I used in a #UX presentation _more than ten years ago_.
Whether you're a designer, a product stakeholder, or a user, ask yourself this question the next time you're stumped by a software application. If the answer is no, then that product's designers have failed you.
This could be helpful. I used to have all my Flag & General Officer colleagues tagged so I could find the right leader(s) quickly. Same with my #EdTech colleagues. Then LinkedIn took that functionality away and made it only accessible for Premium (paid) members, which didnt make economic sense […]
We just had an incredible #workshop on #video #ethnography featuring insights by Marlys Christianson 🎥 A lot of food for thought on the #affordances of videos, the perspectives we take in analyzing video #data, and much more 🎞️🍿
Stay tuned! We'll post the video recording soon.
Today's tech stories were so dumb I had to write about them: the tech industry’s flawed model of your brain: a case study in how clever people can be so very stupid steady.page/en/cognitive...
#cognition #techbro #brain #affordances #psyscisky #neuroskyence #memory #learning
Online First (open access): "360-degree #ethnography: #affordances and limitations in place-centric research" by Matteo Baraldo, Francesca Dolcetti, and Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
🤓Interested in how #affordances mediate discourse?
📚Most of our articles explore that.
🔎In this thread we highlight some of the articles that have analysed the role of #hyperlinks in different kind of outlets.
More ⏬⏬
🧠 @khimya.bsky.social (Google DeepMind)
Talk: Navigating the Affordance Landscape for Continual Agent Adaptation
She propose rethinking the agent-environment interaction through the lens of affordances and using that to develop data-efficient agents.
#RL #Affordances #ContinualLearning
"So the idea is, that guns aren't neutral, but it is also true that who we are, *plus* the technology, that leads to the affordances it has."
#ShannonVallor, 2025
www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-...
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas […]
🤖¡El cerebro vence a la IA otra vez! ❌ #ciencia #tecnología #Neurociencia, #IA, #CerebroHumano, #Affordances, #ChatGPT, #GPT4, #Tecnología, #InteligenciaArtificial, #DescubrimientoCientífico, #CerebroVSIA, #FuturoDeLaIA, #VisiónHumana, #Robots, #Percepción, #CienciaHoy youtu.be/sX2OhgvRfXU
I love affordances. This artwork is so unclear that it is a bike rack it required at least 5 signs labeling it as a bicycle rack. #affordances #ux #uxdesign
oops wrong pdf tab
performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/download/61/127/586
there's #bretvictor #dynamicland etc.
embodied #affordances n such!
comment repost, typo!
Very interesting talk by Ferdinand Binkofski, Aachen University, on interaction with objects, #affordances and tools and their brain representation - different paths within the dorsal and ventral streams At #Sapienza, @ballabrome.bsky.social
Can users instantly figure out how to interact with your UI? Clear affordances = recognition over recall. #Usability #UXTips #ProductDesign #UX #Affordances #UIDesign
Why are we all talking about 'affordances' & what are they? A life given to the future and a look into the ideas of ecological psychology & the work of JJ Gibson with his student Harry Heft. Life at the synapse: youtu.be/Fi2c1tdAT3c?... #affordances #jjgibson #ecologicalpsychology #loveandphilosophy
I presented the CACHE center's ongoing work on creating social #XR environments that are conducive to productive conversations, and considering unique XR #affordances that align with the social context and #communication goals.
A good one for #affordances nerds
Two toilet buttons with a label underneath that reads “push bottom of button”.
Norman toilet. #affordances
And the quote-posts alone. Finally.
Before quote-posts, gifs and videos, and working hashtags (fairly recent) this place was not ready for us.
#affordances
#OutNow in #iCS
'How are our digital footprints used and interpreted in the courts?' asks Anya Degenshein in this insightful article.
#Surveillance #DigitalEvidence #affordances
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
