Representations, Affordances, and Interactive Systems

The history of algorithmic composition using a digital computer has undergone many representations—data structures that encode some aspects the outside world, or processes and entities within program itself. Parallel histories in cognitive science artificial intelligence have (of necessity) confronted their own notions representations, including ecological perception view J.J. Gibson, who claims mental representations are redundant to affordances apparent its objects, relations. This review tracks these parallel how orientations designs multimodal interactive systems give rise affordances: models used expose parameters controls creator determine system can be and, thus, what it mean.