@inquiline@academicchatter@sts there's a big tradition of looking to Gibson's framing of environmental psychology to talk about affordances. But most of it, at least in education-oriented computing, does not use the word "affordance" in the same way that Gibson does. Current writers often say "affordance" to mean something like "features" regardless of whether there is any interface design to make those features available or to guide users to finding and appropriately activating them.
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