FRAMEWORK OF PRODUCT AFFORDANCES AND PERCEPTUAL INFORMATION

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The purpose of this study was to explore how affordances of a product can be made more perceptible for user-product interaction. Based on the proposition that affordance of an object can be specified by perceptual information, this study illustrates the relationship between affordance and perceptual information in terms of whether perceptual information is existent or absent. A digital camera was exemplified to explain the affordance-information relationship of the product parts. The results show that different affordances are required for some tasks and they all can be presented by relevant perceptual information. That is, the three categories of perceptual information--behavioural, assemblage, and conventional information--should work mutually to present specific affordances for user-product interaction. In this study, an affordance-information framework is suggested.