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Affordances Theory: A review Introduction The concept of affordances was originally found in the work of ecological psychologist James Gibson (1966), where he proposed that perceptions should be understood in a comprehensive perceptual system instead of channels of sensation. The theory of affordance was therefore first developed in Gibson (1977), and expanded in his later work (2014;1986). The theory of affordances refers to the action possibilities that objects and environments offer to an organism (1977;2014;1986). From the handle on a door to the button on a smartphone, affordances…

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