Given a single RGB image our goal is to label every pixel with an affordance type. By affordance, we mean an object’s capability to readily support a certain human action, without requiring precursor actions. We focus on segmenting the following five affordance types in indoor scenes: ‘walkable’, ‘sittable’, ‘lyable’, ‘reachable’, and ‘movable’. Our approach uses a deep architecture, consisting...

Gibson’s notion of affordance seems to attract roboticists’ attention. On a phenomenological level, it allows functions, which have “somehow” been implemented, to be described using a new terminology. However, that does not mean that the affordance notion is of help for building robots and their controllers. This paper explores viewing an affordance as an abstraction from a robot-environment re...

Gibson developed the affordance concept to complement his theory of direct perception that stands in sharp contrast with the prevalent inferential theories of perception. A comparison of the two approaches shows that the distinction between them also has an ontological aspect. We trace the history and newer formalizations of the notion of affordance and discuss some competing opinions on its sc...

This paper proposes a novel framework called ‘cultural affordances’ to examine the dynamic interplay among technology, users and culture, as multilevel multidirectional interactive networks. The includes three dimensions. 1) Cultural affordances of technology describe what can offer culture in terms behavioural or cultural changes. 2) other users, behavioural, technological 3) Affordances desig...

The use of mobile food applications (MFAs) significantly increased in the past decade. MFA ecosystem is evolving, and companies need to consider changing consumer habits stay competitive. This quantitative study proposes a comprehensive model integrating Unified Theory Acceptance Use Technology (UTAUT2) Consumption Values (TCV) that examines factors affect behavioural intent MFAs. 170 participa...

According to several authors in psychology and neurosciences, our ability to perceive affordances is subtended by motor simulation mechanisms. Such mechanisms provide dynamic representations of feasible actions, thus enabling to scale the surrounding structures on the behavioural repertoire and capacities supported by our body. This attractive hypothesis has been taken up in robotics, to build ...

Recent years, Gibson's affordance concept has drawn many attentions in the field of human-computer interface and product design. However, the development of affordance concept in design practice is by far not yet matured, and the differentiation between affordance and symbolic meaning of designed artifacts is not clear. As a result, that wrongly exercising the techniques of “Product Semantics” ...

A contemporary view of motor development considers environmental influences as critical factors in optimal growth and behavior, with the home being the primary agent. The intent of this communication is to introduce the Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development Self-Report (AHEMD-SR) to early childhood practitioners. The AHEMD-SR is a reliable and valid parental self-report asse...

Running title: Vision, action and language unified through embodiment 1 Increasing evidence shows that vision, action and language should not be regarded as a set of disembodied processes. Instead, they form a closely integrated and highly dynamic system that is attuned to the constraints of its bodily implementation as well as to the constraints coming from the world with which this body inter...

In this paper we propose an approach to distinguish affordances on a fine-grained scale. We define an anthropomorphic agent model and parameterized affordance models. The agent model is transformed according to affordance parameters to detect affordances in the input data. We present first results on distinguishing two closely related affordances derived from sitting. The promising results supp...