affordance

Meaning

  1. (countable) Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it.
  2. (countable) A potential transaction or operation that is made possible by a given object or environment; especially, one that is made easily discoverable.
  3. (countable) Any interactive control or component serving as a cue to the user to take some action.

Translations

affordance

مزايا؛ إمكانيات الاستخدام؛ قدرات

captación intuitiva

Etymology

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.

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