affordance and value
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Affordance?
A term invented by JJ Gibson in the 1970s
Now much loved by Robotics
Vital to understand the interaction between people and things
A link between housing and health, education, development, ageing, employment – social value
Affordance
James Jerome Gibson (1979) originally defined Affordance
The affordances of the environment are what it offers the animal, what it provides or furnishes,
either for good or ill.
Value
The Oxford English Dictionary defines Value as
The regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something:
Affordance and Value
"the value of a well-designed object is when it has such a rich set of affordances that people who use it can do things with it that the designer never imagined.”
Don Norman 1994
Social Value of Housing
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The top five determinants of people wanting to move home are:
1. Lack of space
2. Neighbour noise 3. Local vandalism
4. Street noise 5. Having a garden
Fujiwara, HACT 2013
Child developmentAffordances which according to Gibson (1986/1979)refer to the functionally
significant properties of the environment provide a psychologically relevant concept for the analysis of the evolving child-environment
relationship
marketta kytta 2002
Ageing in the Home
The inter-relationship of the affordance of
housing as people age and a
property’s affordability to enhance affordance
has not been considered by policy makers.
McKenzie and Jeffersen 2006
Development of the Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development
Development–Infant Scale
Researchers are becoming increasingly interested in the longitudinal effects of the home environment on the motor development of
high-risk infants.
By clarifying the correlationsbetween elements in the home and motor development,
the instrument could have clinical significance for early intervention.
For example, infants at risk could have their home assessed(screened) to determine and maximize appropriate interventionstrategies. Such strategies could include home modification and
parental education.
cacola et al 2011
Interrelationship between health and environment
Arguably,a good deal of social epidemiology and the
social sciences and health has becomeconcerned with the ways in which
behaviour and other aspects of humanactivity are enabled or constrained by
particular environment
Dunn 2011
Exaggerated affordances The term “affordances”
came to be used in interaction design to
indicate a visual cue to indicate the proper way for a
user to interact with a device.
That scoop under your door handle is an affordance, telling you where your fingers go in a visual
language
AWOLTrends 2011
Providing people with good quality homes generates social value; it is beyond argument.
But maybe because of this, as a sector we’ve taken that
assumption for granted, and not done as much as we might have to actively substantiate and evidence what that value actually is, and the ways in which it is delivered.
http://www.hact.org.uk/blog/2013/04/03/rethinking-housing-and-social-value#sthash.2zVKBK89.dpuf