TheHuman-User Dichotomy 23 bringingupacoolcanneddrinktoonescheekareuniversalandinstinctive,drawing onexperienceswithmind,body,andenvironmentsoembodiedthattheyarelargely unconscious. According to Suri (2005, p. 164), “this awareness is evident from our actions, even when we are not conscious of them. These are unconscious behaviours.” A sequence of largely unconscious interpretation and adjustment creates our behaviour. It is difficult for self-aware humans to realize that the environment is the drivingforcebehindhumaninterpretation,becauseintrospectiontellsusthathuman behaviour is caused by human conscious intentions. In reality, it is meaningless to thinkofmind,body,andenvironmentasexistingseparately.Ourrealityiscomposed of a complexof customs,social situations, personalexperience,culture and objects, and our environment determines our being to an inconceivable extent. Awareness largely follows behaviour, rather than vice versa. Some design practitioners have intuitively observed people in everyday life, examined these everyday interactions, and sublimated their thought from these observations into their design solutions (Suri 2005; Hosoe et al. 1991;Gotoetal. 2004).Theydiscoveralotabouthowpeoplephysicallyandperceptuallyblendwith their surroundings. They look carefully at what people actually end up doing in everyday life: why have people put something here in a certain way? What are the people making a certain pose doing there and why do people respond to an object in the way they do? Why did people react in that way? Introspectioncan sometimes reveal what is of value to us behind these everyday interactions that occur around us all the time, but in fact we are not usually consciously aware of our actions and reactions. By this view, humans can be characterized as; people who intuitively interpret what is of value for their purposes in their current environment and try to becomeharmoniouswithit in everydaylife activities. To understand this phenomenon, there is a key concept – affordance – from ecological psychology. James J Gibson, in his book The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (Gibson 1978), coined the term ‘affordance’ from the verb ‘to afford’. According to his theory, a chair possesses an affordance for sitting, but the chairdoesnotforceapersonintositting.Peoplemayfindthemselvessittingwithout anyawarenessofhavingdecidedtosit.Further,achairaffordstheprospectofsitting regardless of a person’s health, condition or mood. Affordances seem to draw on our natural flow of action in specific situations. Every organism including humans utilizes affordances in the environment. Affordances are something that everyone knows intuitively and largely unconsciously; they are innumerable, complex and mysterious. Similarly, people sometimes get healing from paintings, poems and music. They sometimes end up crying when they are in a church. They are then human, neither customernoruser. As Dutton suggests, the most recent research on universal features, for example in art, has come out of evolu- tionary psychology, which attemptsto understand and explain the experience and capacities of the human mind in terms of characteristics it developed in the long evolutionary history of the human species. (Dutton 2001, p. 283)