Understanding Context

Index

A note on the digital index

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A city is not a tree (Architectural Form), Perspectives and Journeys

abstraction

categorization and, What Writing Does

using physical activities to work out, Embodied Cognition: An Alternative View

account, using term, Labels and Ontology

action

calibration of, Information Pickup

context emerging out of sensemaking and, People Make Sense Through Stories

environment controlling, What Does All This Mean for Design?

environment exerting control over understanding and, Narratives and Situations

perceiving layout with perception and, Layout

perceptual system and physical, Action and the Perceptual System

activity, separating context and, A Conventional Definition of Context

affordance-versus-function separation, Semantic Function

affordances

about, Affordance

as value-neutral, Affordance

directly perceived vs. indirectly meaningful and, Affording information is always in a context of other information

existence in environment of, Affordances are value-neutral

human infants and, The Built Environment

information vs. ideas in, Affordances are value-neutral

interfaces approaching physical, Semantic Function of Simulated Objects

invariants and, Compound Invariants

language ...