Affordances and the Body: An Intentional Analysis of Gibson's Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

By Harry Heft. 1989

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An Outline of a Theory of Affordances (2003, background): “Heft (1989) provided a second reason for taking body scale to be the properties of animals to which the affordances of the environment are related.”
What can I do here? A Theory of Affordances in Reinforcement Learning (2020, methodology): “Heft (1989) discussed the fact that affordances are located at the agent-environment boundary.”
Affordances, Dynamic Experience, and the Challenge of Reification (2003, background): “The perceived affordance of an object can change in immediate experience as the goal of intentional action changes (Heft, 1989).”
The Affordances for Social Psychology of the Ecological Approach to Social Knowing (2007, background): “Heft (1989) has argued that the concept of intentionality needs to be incorporated within ecological theorizing (cf. Reed, 1993a; Vedeler, 1991).”
Affordances and Independent Mobility in the Assessment of Environmental Child Friendliness (2003, background): “T H E A F F O R D A N C E A S A T H E O R E T IC A L C O N C E P T affordances from actualized ones (see Section The Transactionality of Affordances; Heft, 1989), after which I will take a closer look at the various levels of actualization of affordances.”
Affordances as Properties of the Animal-Environment System (2003, background): “Similar arguments have been made by Heft (1989, 2001) and Sanders (1997).”
Affordance based design: a relational theory for design (2009, background): “…of affordance has been the subject of much study and application within perceptual psychology (see, e.g., Warren 1984; Riccio and Stoffregen 1988; Heft 1989; Mark et al. 1990; Turvey 1992; Oudejans et al. 1996; Sanders 1997; Zebrowitz and Collins 1997; Bingham 2000; Gibson 2000a, 2000b;…”
Children's Friendship with Place: A Conceptual Inquiry (2023, background): “Representations, according to Heft (2001), create possibilities of storing knowledge in the inanimate environment rather than in the more fragile form of biological traces.”
Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory (2015, background): “And although an environment is full of potential functional properties that help observers to act, human beings or animals tend to actualize only specific affordances (Ben-Zeev, 1984; Heft, 1989).”
The extent of children's independent mobility and the number of actualized affordances as criteria for child-friendly environments (2004, background): “The former has been operationalized in this article by the number of actualized, positive affordances (Gibson, 1979; Heft, 1989) and the latter by the degree of independent mobility.”
Understanding phenomenological differences in how affordances solicit action. An exploration (2018, background): “…for example the fact that we experience the world around us and the possibilities for action that it offers differently as we grow older (see e.g. Heft 1989, pp.20–22), cannot be explained by adhering merely to our changing bodies and bodily capacities, but also has to do with a change in…”