The diversity profile affects ...

Affordances - how performers infer what an interface artifact does from how it presents itself

Constraints - physical, logical, semantic, and cultural factors that encourage proper actions and prevent errors

Conceptual models - the mental models that help performers understand the system, predict effects of their actions, and interpret results

Mappings - how performers perceive relationships between control variables they manipulate and system state

Visibility - how apparent and explicit the system presents its underlying conceptual model to the performer

Feedback - how much information must be reflected back to the performer concerning the effects of his or her action