affordance

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it. countable
    — So an affordance cannot be measured as we measure in physics.
  2. A potential transaction or operation that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable. countable
    — Take for instance a paperback book. It has a wide variety of affordances including conveying a narrative story, weighing down papers in a windy office, swatting houseflies, etc. While these affordances are properties of the book, whether they are available depends on the context.
  3. Any interactive control or component serving as a cue to the user to take some action. countable
    — The grab handles on the edges of this image are affordances that the user can exploit to change the size of the image.

词形变化

affordances plural

词汇关系

相关词
affordant

词源

From 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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