Events as Changes in the Layout of Affordances

Chemero, Anthony; Klein, Colin; Cordeiro, William Robson

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“…As independent variables we used the perceived maximum stepping distance, perceived maximum jumping distance, actual maximum stepping distance, and actual maximum jumping distance. Because in a previous study the affordance of stepping across a gap was quantified as a percentage of leg length (Chemero, Klein, & Cordeiro, 2003), we also included this anthropometric measure as an independent variable in the multiple regression analyses. Table 3 provides an overview of the created models.…”

Section: Child and Playground Characteristicsmentioning

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Do children create standardized playgrounds? A study on the gap-crossing affordances of jumping stones

Jongeneel

Withagen

Zaal

2015

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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Section: Child and Playground Characteristicsmentioning

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Do children create standardized playgrounds? A study on the gap-crossing affordances of jumping stones

Jongeneel

Withagen

Zaal

2015

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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“…Events, according to my article, are changes in the layout of affordances. In a later article (Chemero, Klein, & Cordeiro, 2003), my colleagues and I provided experimental evidence that events so described can be perceived. (For details about, and defense of, this understanding of events, see Chemero, 2000;Chemero et al, 2003.…”

Section: Affordances and Eventsmentioning

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“…In a later article (Chemero, Klein, & Cordeiro, 2003), my colleagues and I provided experimental evidence that events so described can be perceived. (For details about, and defense of, this understanding of events, see Chemero, 2000;Chemero et al, 2003. ) Here, I limit my discussion to the way that the definition of affordances as outlined affects the theory of events just described.…”

Section: Affordances and Eventsmentioning

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An Outline of a Theory of Affordances

Chemero¹

2003

Ecological Psychology

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A theory of affordances is outlined according to which affordances are relations between the abilities of animals and features of the environment. As relations, affordances are both real and perceivable but are not properties of either the environment or the animal. I argue that this theory has advantages over extant theories of affordances and briefly discuss the relations among affordances and niches, perceivers, and events.The primary difference between direct and inferential theories of perception concerns the location of perceptual content, the meaning of our perceptions. In inferential theories of perception, these meanings arise inside animals, based on their interactions with the physical environment. Light, for example, bumps into receptors, causing a sensation. The animal (or its brain) performs inferences on the sensation, yielding a meaningful perception. In direct theories of perception, on the other hand, meaning is in the environment, and perception does not depend on meaning-conferring inferences; instead, the animal simply gathers information from a meaning-laden environment. However, if the environment contains meanings, then it cannot be merely physical. This places a heavy theoretical burden on direct theories of perception, a burden so severe that it may outweigh all the advantages to conceiving perception as direct. 1 This is because direct theories of perception require a new ontology, one that is at odds with today's physicalist, reductionist consensus that says the world just is the physical world, full stop. ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 15(2), 181-195 Copyright © 2003, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Requests for reprints should be sent to Anthony Chemero, Scientific and Philosophical Studies of Mind Program, Department of Psychology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604-3003. E-mail: tony.chemero@fandm.edu 1 Among these advantages are that direct perception is more true to phenomenology, is more realistic from an evolutionary point of view, and short-circuits traditional skeptical worries.

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“…The distinction between turnaround and rescue contexts is important, as they may differ in properties as events and if so present variations in layouts of affordances (Chemero, Klein & Cordeiro, 2003) for action. Turnaround is typically associated with earlier intervention (often informal) while rescue is a formal process driven by legal directives for distressed businesses.…”

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A framework for turnaround practitioners to assess reasonable prospect for ventures operating in the zone of insolvency

Pretorius

2017

SAJBM

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Turnaround practitioners (TPs) and business rescue practitioners (BRPs) are tasked with making the critical decision of whether a distressed business has reasonable prospect (RP) for reorganisation. Creditors often require the same determination because only businesses assessed to have a reasonable prospect can enter the rescue or reorganisation process. These determinations are difficult because they are made within a ‘zone of insolvency’ (ZoI). Going concerns operate on a solvent basis but may slide into the ZoI where conditions are ambiguous, unclear and uncertain. At the same, time, the specific conditions and contexts of distressed businesses vary widely despite some generic similarities that may exist. Therefore, the decision about reasonable prospect depends largely on how TP and BRPs perceive and make sense of the ambiguous conditions within the zone of insolvency. Finally, creditors and courts rarely agree with such RP determinations, but no generic tool exists to satisfy all stakeholders. Hence, the decision of whether (or not) a distressed business has a reasonable prospect to embark upon a reorganisation intervention involves both rational and subjective assessment to make sense of the conditions present in the ZoI. An affordance framework with guiding scores is proposed to determine reasonable prospect.

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Events as Changes in the Layout of Affordances

Cited by 28 publications

References 10 publications

Do children create standardized playgrounds? A study on the gap-crossing affordances of jumping stones

Do children create standardized playgrounds? A study on the gap-crossing affordances of jumping stones

An Outline of a Theory of Affordances

A framework for turnaround practitioners to assess reasonable prospect for ventures operating in the zone of insolvency

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