Abstract
The authors investigated the perception of affordances for aperture passage in an environment-person-person (E-P-P) system, which comprised an adult perceiver and a child as a companion. Perceivers were 8 large and 8 small female undergraduates and were companioned with 1 large and 1 small girl. The perceivers perceptually judged the minimum aperture width for the E-P-P system, and then the adult-child dyads (a pair of people) actually walked through to determine the system's actual minimum aperture width. Results demonstrated that perceivers precisely judged the action capabilities of an E-P-P system on the basis of the body-scaled information of each adult-child dyad. The findings extended the previous concept of affordances for an environmentperson system to affordances for an E-P-P system.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 495-500 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Motor Behavior |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2009 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Preparation of the article was supported by the Taiwan National Science Council (NSC 96–2413-H-017–008). The authors thank Yen-Lin Kao and Ting-Ting Chang who helped with data collection.
Keywords
- Affordances
- Aperture passage
- Body-scaled information
- Environment-person- person (E-P-P) system