Qualified Affordance-based Design - Categorizing and Applying Affordances to Product Design

This book starts by analyzing the inability of functional description in product design to demonstrate the necessity of involving affordance, and then reviews and compares the use of affordance in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Artificial Intelligence (AI), design, psychology, and philosophy. A research opportunity identified from the review and comparison is to qualify the affordance-based design. Therefore, a new categorization scheme of affordances applicable for product design is proposed, including doing and happening Artifact-Artifact Affordances (dAAA and hAAA), doing and happening Artifact-Environment Affordances (dAEA and hAEA), and doing and happening Artifact-User Affordances (dAUA and hAUA). The new scheme is then validated based on the requirements of a taxonomy.

About the author

Jun Hu is now an engineer at AK Steel R&D. He received his PhD in Automotive Engineering in 2016 and MS in Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University in 2012 and BE in Mechanical Engineering and BA in English at Qingdao University of Sci & Tech in 2009. Research interests include material characterization of deformation, springback, and failure.

Product details

• Authors: Jun Hu
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2012
• EAN: 9783659237089
• ISBN: 978-3-659-23708-9
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 275 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering