Definition of "affordances" []

• Plural form of affordance. (noun)

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• "The term affordances refers to the ways in which individuals can interact with things in their environment."
• "I notice also that Walter uses the word affordances a couple of times and I think that is just the right word to use, because affordances means the opportunity is there but not the inevitability eg. bad teaching can destroy the best intentions of those who designed the machine:"
• "“The” is a be-all, end-all, up on a pedestal kind of marker, where “a/an” is “there’s more of these, and each has certain affordances and characteristics”."