Information is Relational, Affordances Are Not

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew D Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Perception And Action ◽  
Task Environment ◽  
Perceptual Information ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Recent Approach ◽  
Dispositional Properties

Ever since Gibson proposed the concept of ‘affordances’ in 1979, we have been arguing about the best way to formalize the idea in a way that can allow us to successfully explain behavior. The first approach was to consider them as dispositional properties of task environment which can support skillful perception and action. A more recent approach considers them more broadly as relations between properties of organisms and their environments. This expands the spatial and temporal scope of affordances; we stand in many kinds of relations to our physical but also social and cultural environments. Relational affordances are therefore offered as an ecological way to explain behaviors in these domains. However, these relational affordances do not, as a rule, interact with perceptual media and therefore do not create perceptual information about themselves. This means they cannot be perceived, which in turn means they cannot play any role in an ecological explanation of a behavior. This paper briefly reviews the dispositional vs relational accounts of affordances, explains the problem, and proposes an information-based alternative (building on Golonka, 2015). Affordances are not relational, but fortunately information is, and this is where we should focus our attention.

Dispositional Properties of Metaphor

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam K. Fetterman ◽  
Brian P. Meier ◽  
Michael D. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Positive Affect ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Taste Preferences ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽  
Prosocial Motivation ◽  
Sweet Food ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
Sweet Foods ◽  
Dispositional Properties

Abstract. Metaphors often characterize prosocial actions and people as sweet. Three studies sought to explore whether conceptual metaphors of this type can provide insights into the prosocial trait of agreeableness and into daily life prosociality. Study 1 (n = 698) examined relationships between agreeableness and food taste preferences. Studies 2 (n = 66) and 3 (n = 132) utilized daily diary protocols. In Study 1, more agreeable people liked sweet foods to a greater extent. In Study 2, greater sweet food preferences predicted a stronger positive relationship between daily prosocial behaviors and positive affect, a pattern consistent with prosocial motivation. Finally, Study 3 found that daily prosocial feelings and behaviors varied positively with sweet food consumption in a manner that could not be ascribed to positive affect or self-control. Altogether, the findings encourage further efforts to extend conceptual metaphor theory to the domain of personality processes, in part by building on balance-related ideas.

Exploring Strategy Use in a Multiple-Task Environment: Effects of Automation Reliability and Task Properties

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiu Shun Dan ◽  
Ralph H. Cullen ◽  
Wendy A. Rogers ◽  
Arthur D. Fisk
Keyword(s):  
Strategy Use ◽  
Task Environment ◽  
Environment Effects ◽  
Multiple Task ◽  
And Task

Modeling the task environment: ACT-R and the lens model

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Miller ◽  
Alex Kirlik
Keyword(s):  
Task Environment ◽  
Lens Model

Viking Development of an Infantry Scenario Multi-Task Environment

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne C. Harris ◽  
Raja Parasuraman ◽  
Marla Zinni ◽  
Peter A. Hancock ◽  
Scot C. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Task Environment

A Survey on Internet of Things : Applications and Layered Wise Security Issues

2019 ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Uppuluri Sirisha ◽  
G. Lakshme Eswari
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Data Points

This paper briefly introduces Internet of Things(IOT) as a intellectual connectivity among the physical objects or devices which are gaining massive increase in the fields like efficiency, quality of life and business growth. IOT is a global network which is interconnecting around 46 million smart meters in U.S. alone with 1.1 billion data points per day[1]. The total installation base of IOT connecting devices would increase to 75.44 billion globally by 2025 with a increase in growth in business, productivity, government efficiency, lifestyle, etc., This paper familiarizes the serious concern such as effective security and privacy to ensure exact and accurate confidentiality, integrity, authentication access control among the devices.

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