School of Computer Science

Types of Affordance: More Than You Think
Aaron Sloman
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs

Installed: 22 Jul 2010
Last updated: 22 Jul 2010; 19 Feb 2018; 10 Sep 2020; 22 Jun 2022

TO BE EXPANDED:

Related paper on evolution of information processing:
Varieties Of Evolved Forms Of Consciousness, Including Mathematical Consciousness
Published in Entropy, June 2020, available (free of charge) at
https://www.mdpi.com/732534

Related talk, given (remotely to Singapore research group) in June 2022:
https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/singapore-2022.html

The Meta-Configured Genome Idea

https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/meta-configured-genome.html
Developed with Jackie Chappell, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/biosciences/chappell-jackie.aspx

Background: J.J. Gibson's achievement

The Somatic/Exosomatic Distinction

Proto-Affordances and Affordances

Other Types of Affordance Relevant to Cognition

For more on the above see these discussion papers:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/between-form-and-function.html
Possibilities (proto-affordances) Between Form and Function

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/changing-affordances.html
Predicting Affordance Changes (Including Video demonstrations)
(Steps towards knowledge-based visual servoing)

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/actual.possibilities.html
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/96-99.html#15
Aaron Sloman,
Actual Possibilities (Paper from KR'96), Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning:, Proc. 5th Int. Conf. on Knowledge Representation (KR `96), Eds. L.C. Aiello and S.C. Shapiro, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Boston, MA, 1996,

NOTE added 19 Feb 2018
Work done on Mental Affordances by Tom McClelland is closely related to the topics mentioned here, including his paper at AISB 2017
http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/87246/

McClelland, Tom (2017) AI and affordances for mental action. In: AISB Computing and Philosophy Symposium, Bath, 19-21 April 2017. Published in: Proceedings of the AISB Annual Convention 2017 pp. 372-379.

His slides for a workshop at Warwick University on 31st Jan 2018
https://www.academia.edu/35825145/Perceiving_Affordances_and_Perceiving_Im_Possibility
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/news/calendar?calendarItem=8a17841b5ef234a5015f0576142369a6

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School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham