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The aim of this research is to formulate relationships between the geometrical attributes of objects and affordance for operations as affordance features. If affordance features are well formulated, then they will allow designers to strengthen intended affordances for higher usability of products or to systematically examine and achieve product or interface shapes with both high usability and aestheticity or novelty. In this paper we show some affordance features and their relationships with quantitative conditions obtained from an analysis of user tests involving sample objects of various shapes.
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Murakami, T., Higuchi, M., Yanagisawa, H. (2009). Trial of Formulating Affordance Features for Product Design. In: Shumaker, R. (eds) Virtual and Mixed Reality. VMR 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5622. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02771-0_65
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