TY - JOUR
T1 - What Is an Affordance?
AU - Jones, Keith S.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - What should and should not be considered an affordance is still an open issue. At the 2002 North American meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology, a symposium was held concerning this topic. The articles in this special issue are expanded versions of the papers presented at that symposium. To set the stage for those discussions, this article presents an analysis of the evolution of J. J. Gibson's thinking on this issue, from some of his earliest writings (i.e., J. J. Gibson & Crooks, 1938) through his most recent writings (i.e., J. J. Gibson, 1979/1986). It is hoped that this forum will stimulate thinking concerning this important ecological concept.
AB - What should and should not be considered an affordance is still an open issue. At the 2002 North American meeting of the International Society for Ecological Psychology, a symposium was held concerning this topic. The articles in this special issue are expanded versions of the papers presented at that symposium. To set the stage for those discussions, this article presents an analysis of the evolution of J. J. Gibson's thinking on this issue, from some of his earliest writings (i.e., J. J. Gibson & Crooks, 1938) through his most recent writings (i.e., J. J. Gibson, 1979/1986). It is hoped that this forum will stimulate thinking concerning this important ecological concept.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0142199793&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1207/S15326969ECO1502_1
DO - 10.1207/S15326969ECO1502_1
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0142199793
SN - 1040-7413
VL - 15
SP - 107
EP - 114
JO - Ecological Psychology
JF - Ecological Psychology
IS - 2
ER -