Affordances and their ontological core
Author:
Toyoshima Fumiaki1, Barton Adrien21, Ethier Jean-François1
Affiliation:
1. Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Informatique de la Santé (GRIIS), Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l’Université, Sherbrooke (Quebec), J1K 2R1, Canada 2. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), CNRS, Université de Toulouse, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Abstract
The notion of affordance remains elusive, notwithstanding its importance for the representation of agency, cognition, and behaviors. This paper lays down a foundation for an ontology of affordances by elaborating the idea of “core affordance” which would serve as a common ground for explaining existing diverse conceptions of affordances and their interrelationships. For this purpose, it analyzes M. T. Turvey’s dispositional theory of affordances in light of a formal ontology of dispositions. Consequently, two kinds of so-called “core affordances” are proposed: specific and general ones. Inspired directly by Turvey’s original account, a specific core affordance is intimately connected to a specific agent, as it is reciprocal with a counterpart effectivity (which is a disposition) of this agent within the agent-environment system. On the opposite, a general core affordance does not depend on individual agents; rather, its realization involves an action by an instance of a determinate class of agents. The utility of such core affordances is illustrated by examining how they can be leveraged to formalize other major accounts of affordances. Additionally, it is briefly outlined how core affordances can be employed to analyze three notions that are closely allied with affordances: the environment, image schemas, and intentions.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,General Computer Science
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