Affordances

Podcast: Human Factors Minute · Human Factors Cast

Opublikowano: 2026-08-20

Affordances, coined by psychologist James Gibson in 1966, are detailed as what an environment offers to an individual. Further detailed later by computer interaction researcher Don Norman as, “A relationship between the properties of an object and the capabilities of the agent that determine just how the object could possibly be used” or, “action possibilities.” Affordances imply what interactions for users are possible in our everyday life, physically and digitally. Affordances generally exist within the following categories: False – Where the environment/object characteristics suggests and action may be taken where one does not exist, such as a button o...