Simulated And Virtual Realities

9 Designing in virtual reality: perception-action coupling and affordances

Gerda J. F. Smets, Pieter Jan Stappers, Kees J. Overbeeke and Charles van der Mast

‘We all agreed,’ he said, ‘that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.’ Bohr to Pauli.(F. J. Dyson, Innovation in physics, Scientific American, September 1958, 74-82)

9.1 Introduction

Simulations have always been important to engineers who use preliminary models and test rigs to find out whether the designs they have thought up will actually work. It is important, however, to know when such simulations are useful to the design engineer and when their similarity ...