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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.72
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189672
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2023/18967/
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Timpf, Sabine ; Klügl, Franziska

Modelling Affordances as Emergent Phenomena (Short Paper)

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Abstract

Affordances are an important basis for many human-environment interactions such as navigation or geo-design. In this short paper we present an approach to modelling affordances based on treating affordances as emergent phenomena in an agent-based simulation. We use the notion of an affordance schema to represent the setting in which the emergence of an affordance is made possible. We use a case study to show that (unexpected) affordances emerge during the course of the simulation. While the general approach is promising and may be used for other emergent phenomena such as landmarks, we also acknowledge and discuss the problems incurred during the modelling process. The paper closes with a reflection and some ideas for future work.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{timpf_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.72,
  author =	{Timpf, Sabine and Kl\"{u}gl, Franziska},
  title =	{{Modelling Affordances as Emergent Phenomena}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{72:1--72:6},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18967},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-189672},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.72},
  annote =	{Keywords: agent-based modelling, cognitive engineering, spatial cognition, theory of modelling}
}

Keywords: agent-based modelling, cognitive engineering, spatial cognition, theory of modelling
Collection: 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)
Issue Date: 2023
Date of publication: 07.09.2023
Supplementary Material: Software: https://github.com/sabinetimpf/emergentAffordance

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