affordance
Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within itAnything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it.
Meaning
3 senses(countable)Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it.
возможностьvozmožnostʹ
(countable)A potential transaction or operation that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
аффордансaffordans, возможностьvozmožnostʹ
(countable)Any interactive control or component serving as a cue to the user to take some action.
The grab handles on the edges of this image are affordances that the user can exploit to change the size of the image.
аффордансaffordans, возможностьvozmožnostʹ
Translations
1 languagesBy meaning 2
Origin
From afford + -ance; coined in 1977 by psychologist James J. Gibson, and adopted in 1988 bFrom afford + -ance; coined in 1977 by psychologist James J. Gibson, and adopted in 1988 by Donald Norman in the context of human-machine interaction.
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Forms
plural: affordances| Singular | affordance |
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