{"id":208,"date":"2022-08-16T15:24:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2022-08-16T15:51:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:51:19","slug":"8-interacting-with-physical-objects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/chapters\/8-interacting-with-physical-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"8: Interacting with Physical Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-255\" src=\"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/chap-08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"106\" \/>This chapter begins by revisiting affordances: the way that our perceptions are tuned to be able to instantly and instinctively understand the action potential of objects around us: what we can do with them.\u00a0 However, in the constructed environment we have to deliberately design objects so that they create the right impressions from doors that look as though they can be pushed or pulled, to knobs that feel as if they turn in the appropriate direction.\u00a0 Happily humans are natural affordance seekers, actively finding ways to engage with the world around us and learning cultural conventions and device idiosyncrasies.\u00a0 This seeking includes epistemic action: things we do to learn about world, blurring the distinction between action and perception.\u00a0 The very softness and pliability of our bodies help us act, a fact that can be used to design robots, create better tools for people, and even help fold a bed sheet.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Keywords:<\/span> Affordances, Perception, Information ergonomics, Ergonomics, Embodied cognition, Cultural convention, Social convention, Epistemic action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chapter begins by revisiting affordances: the way that our perceptions are tuned to be able to instantly and instinctively understand the action potential of objects around us: what we can do with them.\u00a0 However, in the constructed environment we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":192,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-208","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions\/256"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}