THE MINERS

affordance mining is recycling in a sense. "the process of researching (usually hardware) technology, such as the keyboard, touchscreen, traffic lights, etc., to determine their underutilized actionable properties and developing methods of leveraging those properties into innovative forms of interaction between the actor and the technology. affordance mining could also be considered a type of hacking. but rather than subverting a technology's designed intent by exploiting its weaknesses the emphasis is on discovering and inventing new interaction models with a technology." let's remove the roof over the definition. the process of researching anything to determine it's underutilized properties and developing methods of leveraging those properties into innovative forms. affordance mining could also be considered a type of hacking.

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