Journal article
Representational affordances in design, with examples from analogy making and optimization
Research in engineering design, v 23(3), pp 235-249
01 Jul 2012
Abstract
Affordances in design can be understood as the action possibilities of a user interacting with a designed object. In this paper, we develop the notion of "representational affordances" to denote affordances provided by design representations to the designer as the "user" of these representations. A major characteristic of representational affordances is that they do not have to rely on existing representations but can drive the construction of new representations that may then afford different design actions. We describe representational affordances ontologically, proposing three affordance types: reflexive, reactive and reflective. We illustrate them with examples of analogy making and optimization.
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- Title
- Representational affordances in design, with examples from analogy making and optimization
- Creators
- John S. Gero - George Mason UniversityUdo Kannengiesser - Data61
- Publication Details
- Research in engineering design, v 23(3), pp 235-249
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 15
- Grant note
- Australian Government SBE-915482 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF) Australian Research Council through the ICT Centre of Excellence; Australian Research Council Department of Broad-band, Communications and the Digital Economy
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000305908600005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84865600834
- Other Identifier
- 991022157489004721