Affordances in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Robotics: A Survey

Lorenzo Jamone; Emre Ugur; Angelo Cangelosi; Luciano Fadiga; Alexandre Bernardino; Justus Piater; José Santos-Victor

doi:10.1109/TCDS.2016.2594134

Affordances in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Robotics: A Survey

Lorenzo Jamone, Emre Ugur, Angelo Cangelosi, Luciano Fadiga, Alexandre Bernardino, Justus Piater, José Santos-Victor

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The concept of affordances appeared in psychology during the late 60s as an alternative perspective on the visual perception of the environment. It was revolutionary in the intuition that the way living beings perceive the world is deeply influenced by the actions they are able to perform. Then, across the last 40 years, it has influenced many applied fields, e.g., design, human-computer interaction, computer vision, and robotics. In this paper, we offer a multidisciplinary perspective on the notion of affordances. We first discuss the main definitions and formalizations of the affordance theory, then we report the most significant evidence in psychology and neuroscience that support it, and finally we review the most relevant applications of this concept in robotics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4-25
Number of pages	22
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
Volume	10
Issue number	1
Early online date	26 Jul 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCDS.2016.2594134
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2018

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Affordances
cognitive system and development
ecological perception
embodied cognition
learning skills
robots with development

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