This week we learn about affordance. What is affordance? According to Wikipedia, An affordance is a quality of an object, or an environment, which allows an individual to perform an action. For example, a knob affords twisting, and perhaps pushing, while a cord affords pulling. Affordance is create by the psychologist J.J Gibson which refers to the qualities of the physical world that suggest the possibility of interaction relative to the ability of an actor ( person/animal) to interact.
Affordance in novel objects
How do you turn on shower?
How you know how to open?
The shower has its own structure, the layout and others.
Good Affordances:
Doors (knob- changing affordances)
- Shape of the door knob.
How do affordances apply to robotics?
- Robots must be able to deal with unfamiliar objects.
- Recognizing affordances can lead them to effective strategies
for interacting with objects.
Humans needs ways of instructing robots.
– Language for describing object interactions would be helpful.
– This is the language in which affordances are described
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