An Affrodance-Based Model of Place in GIS

摘要

People deal with places in their everyday lives. Interactions with places are based on the meaning people assign to them. In order to integrate the conept 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-represnetation that comes closer to the user. An example is used to show the applicability of the modle. Our conclusion is that the integration of an affordance-based model of place into future GIS will lead to a better communication between users and systems.