affordance

n. 功能可见性；自解释性；给养

词形变化

affordances 复数 affordances

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it.

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  2. 2.

    A potential transaction or operation that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.

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  3. 3.

    Any interactive control or component serving as a cue to the user to take some action.

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    The grab handles on the edges of this image are affordances that the user can exploit to change the size of the image.

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary