A still fit hiker, however, might not even pick up on the sit affordance of the bench and pass it. A very tired hiker will sit on the wooden bench but will not lie down (unless the wooden bench also has a lie affordance). A hiker who has walked for hours and passes the wooden bench on a walk along small country roads might perceive the sit affordance of the wooden bench as a function of the degree of fatigue.
A good example clarifies social affordance as follows: “ A wooden bench is supposed to have a sit affordance. Social affordances are not synonymous with mere factual, statistical frequency on the contrary, the social normality of primitive forms of coordination can become normative, even in primate societies. These social interactions include users’ responses, social accessibility and society related changes. Social affordances – or more accurately sociotechnical affordances – refer as reciprocal interactions between a technology application, its users, and its social context. Social affordances emerge from the coupling between the behavioral and cognitive capacities of a given organism and the objective properties of its environment. Social affordance is most often used in the context of a social technology such as Wiki, Chat and Facebook applications and refers to sociotechnical affordances. It refers to the properties of an object or environment that permit social actions. Social affordance is a type of affordance. Please introduce links to this page from related articles try the Find link tool for suggestions. This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it.
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