The emotional superiority of effecter affordances

Abstract

Affordance has been well discuss in HCI field since Gibson created this concept. Based on Kaptelinin and Nardi’s notion of instrumental affordance, we explore the influence of emotional attributes of effecter affordance on user experience, according to the data of experiment, we argue that (1) the effecter affordances have emotional attributes (e.g. Positive, negative, neutral) that can be pick up by user and impact user experiences. (2) Positive effecter affordance can provide emotional superiority to user experience. We propose several design guidelines according the result of experiment, we hope these principles can help designer avoid mistake and back those good designs up.