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Dynamic touch
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Dynamic touch
Dynamic touch is a conceptual term that adequately expresses the sensation of contacting an environment&sbquo as a cognitive element&sbquo in relation to the cognitive psychological term "affordance" advocated by J.J.Gibson. Essentially&sbquo affordance can be considered as the character possessed y things. The character here means the sensation&sbquo in the relationship between animals and things&sbquo and between human beings and things in particular&sbquo that is evoked when a person comes into contacts with something. This sensation can be considered as the sensation of the overall surroundings that confirms the unified existence that is established&sbquo through a psychological relationship between the human being and its environment&sbquo or animals and their environment. The human being&sbquo in particular&sbquo can grasp the character of a thing&sbquo the object of contact&sbquo through one sense or another when she predicts the "contact" or "situation of contact." For example&sbquo when she is about to touch the tip of something sharp she will predict that it may puncture or cut her hand if she touches it. This is because she perceives that the material properties of the things comprise part of the character of the thing due to the sharpness of its tip. Gibson defines dynamic touch (contact sensation) as the sensation that might be felt through the movement of the hand or by the hand when trying to determine the character of a thing one is about to hold or grab. This means that animals&sbquo including the human being&sbquo can feel their own existence in their environment or the environment itself that surrounds them only "within the range they can come in contact with." It is&sbquo therefore&sbquo necessary that the object of design be equipped with some kind of function that "affords" the contact sensation&sbquo such as the environment or the surrounding situation in which the contact sensation is seemingly perceptible&sbquo or things in that environment. In other words&sbquo when incorporating affordance into a design intention&sbquo prediction regarding this dynamic touch.