@article{Pastra&Vatakis2016,
author = "Vatakis, Argiro and Pastra, Katerina",
abstract = "In the longstanding effort of defining object affordances, a number of resources have been developed on objects and associated knowledge. These resources, however, have limited potential for modeling and generalization mainly due to the restricted, stimulus-bound data collection methodologies adopted. To-date, therefore, there exists no resource that truly captures object affordances in a direct, multimodal, and naturalistic way. Here, we present the first such resource of ‘thinking aloud’, spontaneously-generated verbal and motoric data on object affordances. This resource was developed from the reports of 124 participants divided into three behavioural experiments with visuo-tactile stimulation, which were captured audiovisually from two camera-views (frontal/profile). This methodology allowed the acquisition of approximately 95 hours of video, audio, and text data covering: object-feature-action data (e.g., perceptual features, namings, functions), Exploratory Acts (haptic manipulation for feature acquisition/verification), gestures and demonstrations for object/feature/action description, and reasoning patterns (e.g., justifications, analogies) for attributing a given characterization. The wealth and content of the data make this corpus a one-of-a-kind resource for the study and modeling of object affordances.",
doi = "10.1038/sdata.2015.78",
journal = "Scientific Data",
keywords = "cognitive experiments, exploratory acts, lithic tools, object affordances, object attributes, reasoning patterns, verbal reports",
number = "150078",
title = "{A} multimodal dataset of spontaneous speech and movement production on object affordances ",
url = "http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201578",
volume = "3",
year = "2016",
}