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Public facilities are necessary to our daily lives, but not everyone will have a positive experience using them in open spaces, particularly those with different abilities. Affordance theory has brought more attention to people with different disabilities. The interaction between persons with different disabilities and public facilities in open spaces is observed and analyzed as part of this paper's investigation of the connection between affordance and user behavior. This paper presents a user experience framework based on affordance that reveals the interaction between users and artifacts from the perspective of affordance and makes recommendations for inclusive public design to promote user experience in open spaces, drawing on the literature on affordance and user experience.
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The authors would like to acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52008114), Philosophy and Social Sciences Fund of Guangdong Province (GD22XYS17), Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Project of Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT[2022]No.59), Student Innovation Training Project of Guangdong University of Technology (xj2023118450788) for the data collection and the preparation of the paper. The authors thank Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, China Disabled Persons’ Federation, Office of Guangzhou Municipal Commission on Aging, China Association for the Blind, China Disabled Persons’ Federation, Guangzhou Disabled Persons’ Federation and Guangzhou Volunteer Association for providing support for the research. The authors also acknowledge Prof. Siu, the Chair professor of Public Design Lab of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for providing a lot of useful information.
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Liang, X.Y., Xiao, J.X., Luo, M.J., Liu, Z.H., Teng, X.N., Cao, Y.Z. (2023). Affordance and User Behavior: Implication for Inclusive Public Facilities to Promote User Experience. In: Duffy, V.G., Krömker, H., A. Streitz, N., Konomi, S. (eds) HCI International 2023 – Late Breaking Papers. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14057. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48047-8_35
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