Gibson, Affordances and more

Posted on July 27, 2002 @ 18:46 in Research

There are some interesting posts on brightlycoloredfood. Chad Thornton's interaction design perspective on online social interaction in many ways complements the social-science perspective and interestingly enough he draws on some of the same sources, such as JJ Gibson. Links:

Affordances and Visual Perception
Gibson Affordances and Norman Affordances (which links to an interesting article: McGrenere, Joanna & Wayne Ho (2000) "Affordances: Clarifying and Evolving a Concept." In: Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2000, Montreal, May 2000. Available: [pdf])
Participatory Game Design

Then I also ran across the 1997 Coverweb: Gender and Electronic Discourse issue.

I didn't know Jon Courtenay Grimwood had his own website, that looks like it's been around for a while. I bought two of his novels which I meant to read while on holiday in Australia, but I never got around to them; I moved them to the top of my 'to read' stack. I actually stumbled into Grimwood's site through a page on virtual girlfriends and virtual idols. The old index to the site is here.

Furthermore: Winslade, J. Lawton (n.d.) "Teen Witches, Wiccans, and "Wanna-Blessed-Be's": Pop-Culture Magic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." In: Slayage, The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies. Available: [html]

Horvath, John (2000) The Importance of History in a Digital World. Available: [html]

Thompson, Ken (1995) Reflections on Trusting Trust. Available: [html]

Cheaters take profits out of online gaming and again: Online gaming's cheating heart

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