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User activities in performing tasks are influenced by the way the user perceives the related context and environment, and determined by the user making a judgment on their preferences. Structures in the physical environment afford user activities when they are properly perceived. This chapter addresses how user activities and perceived affordances are different and reflect personal creativity modes, which are determined by factual–intuitive perception inclination and subjective– objective decision preferences as well as the introverted–extroverted nature of the user. To enable the designing-in of various affordance features for diverse users in varying contexts, an understanding of the relationship between the personal characteristics of the user and affordance perception would be helpful. We conducted a case study in a public space used by many ordinary people. User activities and behaviors were analyzed in specific tasks given to 20 students in a building lobby they had never previously visited. The tasks were devised so that various affordance features would be relevant, while eliminating factors affecting the affordance perception (culture, intelligence, etc.) other than those due to the personal characteristics of the user. User activities can be classified into several different groups for each task based on the affordance features involved in their activities. These differences are then compared with their personal creativity modes. For users of less common activities for some tasks, relevant personal cognitive characteristics have been identified.
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Kim, Y., Jeong, J., Kim, M., Lee, S., Kim, M. (2011). Personal Cognitive Characteristics in Affordance Perception: Case Study in a Lobby. In: Fukuda, S. (eds) Emotional Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-423-4_10
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