This paper examines how organizations perceive affordances of social media and how they react to their employees’ use of social media through policies, a key means of organizational governance. Existing literature identified 4 affordances visibility, persistence, editability, and association (between people and between people and information) as action potentials of social media in organization...

This article suggests a theory of egocentric semantic reference systems for human observations of affordances that can be used to semantically account for subjective human observations on the web. Based on the perceptual theory of affordances, which suggests that humans perceive the potential actions the environment affords, an egocentric semantic reference frame is established, which is anchor...

We use the notion of affordances as a framework to propose a developmental method that enables a robot to ground symbolic planning mechanisms in its continuous sensorimotor experiences. The method allows the robot to learn object affordance relations which can be used to predict the change in the percept of the object when a certain behavior is applied. Our robot experiments has shown that a ro...

Software development teams increasingly adopt platform-as-a-service (PaaS), i.e., cloud services that make software development infrastructure available over the internet. Yet, empirical evidence of whether and how software development work changes with the use of PaaS is difficult to find. We performed a grounded-theory study to explore the affordances of PaaS for software development teams. W...

Computer games have increasingly been the focus of user-led innovations in form of games mods. This paper examines how different kinds of socio-technical affordances serve to organize and govern the actions of the people who develop and share their game mods. The affordances examined include customization and tailoring mechanisms, software and content copyright licenses, game software infrastru...

The purpose of this study was to explore how users perceive the affordances of an object from specific operation tasks. These affordances can be specified in terms of perceptual information. To this end, the eye-tracking technique was employed to capture what product parts uses’ fixation focused on when using a product for specific operational tasks. The results show that, for physical-behavior...

The concept of “affordance” represents the relationship between human perceivers and their environment. Affordance perception, representation, and inference are central to commonsense reasoning, tool-use and creative problem-solving in artificial agents. Existing approaches fail to provide flexibility with which to reason about affordances in the open world, where they are influenced by changin...

The report explores the role of imitation in learning object affordances. Since I intend to experiment with a robotic arm enabling only pushing objects, properties of objects will be the main factor affecting the overall complexity of this “toy world”. Learning in the toy world is a process of discovering objects’ affordances, as well as the kinds of actions and goals related to them. I intend ...

The report explores the role of imitation in learning object affordances. Since I intend to experiment with a robotic arm enabling only pushing objects, properties of objects will be the main factor affecting the overall complexity of this “toy world”. Learning in the toy world is a process of discovering objects’ affordances, as well as the kinds of actions and goals related to them. I intend ...

Human activities comprise several sub-activities performed in a sequence and involve interactions with various objects. This makes reasoning about the object affordances a central task for activity recognition. In this work, we consider the problem of jointly labeling the object affordances and human activities from RGBD videos. We frame the problem as a Markov Random Field where the nodes repr...