affordance response/activity

How do  you understand this definition/description of affordance? Please put into your own words. What if anything may or may not be problematic about this interpretation of the notion of affordances?
       -Affordance is similar to what your environment allows for. Depending on the species or needs of the species affordances can either be helpful or harmful. For example if you live somewhere and the shower is terrible! You may not be as motivated to shower on a regular bases...ew

What might be the connection between affordance and evolution?

        -Evolution seems to be directly dependent on affordances.  If you are unable to accomplish or do something as a result of your environment not allowing you the necessary affordances the odds are you are S.O.L. As a result however!! You (as the species) may find another way to meet your needs.

What is the difference between a niche and a habitat? Explain in your own words and give an example of each. What is your niche?
           -Your habitat is related closely to your environment. Your niche is more of what you do. Because the room is filled with computers(<~habitat) this is your favorite place to work on school projects(<~niche). 

Pick three aspects/environmental conditions of this room or the third floor of FAC. Describe each of these aspects as an affordance. What activity is implied by the material? What sorts of sensory input does this  condition/object offer the user? One way of doing this might be able to put yourself in the place of an alien. What about the object or condition compels you to act upon it in a particular way?
               -The way our studio/workplace is setup with a winding desk around the perimeter of the room suggests that's where we sit and work. Another way to look at it would be that because we need the room to sit and work there is a desk which lines the perimeter of the room for us to all have room to sit and work. The placement of each screen in the classrooms dictates where tutorials and videos are shown. This also dictates where we look, the fact that our chairs need to be easily turned if we are not yet facing the screen. That then points to the swivel chairs we have which allow us to quickly view other things around the classroom.

What do you think is the difference between usefulness and utility with respect to affordances?
             -Something can be useful to one person or species but not necessary. Utility is more of a useful because it is necessary.

What might be a false affordance? Create a situation other than that of the cat on the glass floor who is afraid to walk because the glass is transparent and there is a drop in floor.
          - A button labeled as "speed-up" in an elevator. However the button does nothing. It implys that something will happen when in reality it does not.

Are we aware of all of the affordances of an object or a condition?  Do you think affordances are cultural? Are they different for people with disabilities? 
            -No to the first question and yes to the other two. I feel like we will never be aware of all of the affordances of an object or condition. As humans we are constantly curious and are always finding new (sometimes good sometimes bad) uses for our affordances. They are cultural because our culture dictates what is important and more relevant in our lives. They are also definitely different for people with disabilites because things that may not seem necessary for us may be the difference between getting into a building or not (stairs vs ramp).

Draw parallels between the idea of affordances and intentionality and art. What is the relationship between metaphor and affordances?
      -A metaphor has the potential to be funnier than an affordance. "There's nothing funny about usefulness." An affordance is useful or has the potential to be useful, a metaphor is more of an example of how something can be useful.