English Explanatory Dictionary

affordance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it.
  2. A potential transaction or operation that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
  3. Any interactive control or component serving as a cue to the user to take some action.

Word forms

affordance affordances

Etymology

From afford + -ance; coined in 1977 by psychologist James J. Gibson, and adopted in 1988 by Donald Norman in the context of human-machine interaction.

Related words

affordant

Translations

Finnish: affordanssi Finnish: tarjouma Finnish: käyttömahdollisuus Russian: аффорданс Russian: возможность
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