Abstract
Affordances are a central concept of J.J. Gibson’s approach to visual perception. We describe and discuss the concept of affordances with a brief look at its application to robotics, as well as provide an overview of several existing formalizations. It turns out that a representation of affordances can be based on a certain hierarchy of Pawlak’s approximation spaces. We also outline how concepts could be used in a theory of affordances, and how affordances might be recognized in simple perceiving situations.
Equal authorship is implied. Ivo Düntsch gratefully acknowledges support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Günther Gediga is also adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science, Brock University.
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Düntsch, I., Gediga, G., Lenarcic, A. (2009). Affordance Relations. In: Sakai, H., Chakraborty, M.K., Hassanien, A.E., Ślęzak, D., Zhu, W. (eds) Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing. RSFDGrC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5908. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10646-0_1
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