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Me and My Robot Smiled at One Another: The Process of Socially Enacted Communicative Affordance in Human-Machine Communication

open access: yesHuman-Machine Communication Journal, 2020
The term affordance has been inconsistently applied both in robotics and communication. While the robotics perspective is mostly object-based, the communication science view is commonly user-based.
Carmina Rodríguez-Hidalgo
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Hardware-Aware Affordance Detection for Application in Portable Embedded Systems

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2021
Affordance detection in computer vision allows segmenting an object into parts according to functions that those parts afford. Most solutions for affordance detection are developed in robotics using deep learning architectures that require substantial ...
Edoardo Ragusa   +3 more
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How affordable is HUD affordable housing?

open access: yesHousing Policy Debate, 2016
AbstractThis article assesses the affordability of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rental assistance properties from the perspective of transportation costs. HUD housing is, by definition, affordable from the standpoint of housing costs due to limits on the amounts renters are required to pay.
Shima Hamidi, Reid Ewing, John Renne
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Plastic modes of listening: affordance in constructed sound environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis is concerned with how the ecological approach to perception with the inclusion of listening modes, informs the creation of sound art installation, or more specifically as referred to in this thesis as constructed sound environments.
Sjölin, A.
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Disturbance of Ecological Self and Impairment of Affordance Perception

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Affordance, a radical concept James Gibson introduced in the 1970s, remains controversial today. Defined as environmental properties taken with reference to an animal’s anatomy and action capabilities, affordances are opportunities for action the ...
Nam-Gyoon Kim, Judith A. Effken
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Touch Affordances [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The workshop "Touch Affordances" addresses a concept relevant to human computer interactions based on touch. The main topic is the challenge of applying the notion of affordances to domains related to touch interactions (e.g. (multi)touch screens, RFID & NFC, ubiquitous interfaces).
Slegers, Karin   +2 more
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06231 Abstracts Collection – Towards Affordance-Based Robot Control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
From June 5 to June 9, 2006, the Dagstuhl Seminar 06231 ``Towards Affordance-Based Robot Control'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl.
Dorffner, Georg   +3 more
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An inquiry into the certification potential of built environments’ affordance [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2019
Buildings are typically equipped with a number of elements and devices (e.g., windows, blinds, luminaires, radiators) to control indoor environmental conditions.
Mahdavi Ardeshir, Berger Christiane
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A New Localization Objective for Accurate Fine-Grained Affordance Segmentation Under High-Scale Variations

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Fine-grained affordance segmentation for object parts can greatly benefit robotics and scene understanding applications. In this work, we propose an instance-segmentation framework that can accurately localize functionality and affordance of individual ...
Mohammed Hassanin   +2 more
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Persons and Affordances [PDF]

open access: yesEcological Psychology, 2019
Interdisciplinary interest in affordances is increasing. This paper is a philosophical contribution. The question is: Do persons offer affordances?
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