TY - GEN
T1 - Using Petri Nets for Gibson's affordances
T2 - 50th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, HFES 2006
AU - Thiruvengada, Hari
AU - Rothrock, Ling
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Special thanks are due to Mr. M. Bell, Dr. P. Ritz, and Dr. J. R. Glasmann (Unocal) for providing x-ray data, laser Raman measurements, and procedures for nontronite purification. S. L. Suib and M. L. Occelli acknowledge the Kinetics and Catalysis Division of the NSF for support of this work under grant CBT 8814974.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - In this paper, we introduce the notion of affordance proposed by Gibson, and provide a computational formalism based on Petri Nets (PNs) for conducting perception-based task analysis. Gibson used affordance to refer to what an environment offers an animal for either ill or good. Since then, affordance has been widely adopted and used in several areas such as human computer interaction, mobile robotics, etc. We argue that Petri Net provides the appropriate framework for performing a perception-based task analysis (PTA) as it helps investigate the task from an ecological perspective based on concepts such as affordance, effectivity and actualizations. Additionally, Petri Net can be used to study behavioral properties such as reachability, boundedness and liveness, which relate to the perception-based task. We illustrate how the ecological concepts can be modeled using the proposed PN formalism with reference to a driving task. We conclude that Petri Net is a very useful tool for conducting perception-based task analysis.
AB - In this paper, we introduce the notion of affordance proposed by Gibson, and provide a computational formalism based on Petri Nets (PNs) for conducting perception-based task analysis. Gibson used affordance to refer to what an environment offers an animal for either ill or good. Since then, affordance has been widely adopted and used in several areas such as human computer interaction, mobile robotics, etc. We argue that Petri Net provides the appropriate framework for performing a perception-based task analysis (PTA) as it helps investigate the task from an ecological perspective based on concepts such as affordance, effectivity and actualizations. Additionally, Petri Net can be used to study behavioral properties such as reachability, boundedness and liveness, which relate to the perception-based task. We illustrate how the ecological concepts can be modeled using the proposed PN formalism with reference to a driving task. We conclude that Petri Net is a very useful tool for conducting perception-based task analysis.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:44349130811
SN - 9780945289296
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 1132
EP - 1136
BT - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting, HFES 2006
Y2 - 16 October 2006 through 20 October 2006
ER -