Troy Jordan, Martin Raubal, Bryce Gartrell, and
Max Egenhofer Eighth International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Vancouver, Canada,
T. Poiker and N. Chrisman (eds.), pp. 98-109, July 1998.
Abstract
People deal with places in their everyday lives. Interactions with
such places are based on the meaning people assign to them. In
order to integrate the concept of place into geographic information
systems (GIS), places have to be modeled. This paper presents a
methodology to model places with affordances. Affordances are what
objects or things offer people to do with them. Our methodology of
modeling places with affordances integrates cognitive and
engineering aspects, therefore, leading to a
knowledge-representation that comes closer to the user. An example
is used to show the applicability of the model. Our conclusion is
that the integration of affordance-based models of places into
future GIS will lead to a better communication between users and
systems.
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Troy Jordan, 
Martin Raubal, Bryce Gartrell, and
Max Egenhofer