User-Interface Metaphors - Speaker Deck

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User-Interface Metaphors Alexandros Stylianidis Research Topics in HCI

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The age of ubiquitous computing

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Metaphors • Transfers attributes from source domain to the target domain • Learning by analogy

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User-Interface Metaphor

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Hard to use • Cultural • Bad at scaling • Can cause confusing • Resources go to waste

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Types of Metaphor • Structural • Orientational • Ontological

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Structural Metaphors • Existing knowledge of a real life object or idea

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Orientational Metaphors • Spatial orientation • i.e. MORE IS UP, LESS IS DOWN or RIGHT IS FORWARD, LEFT IS PAST

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Ontological Metaphors • Give a system concept or some method its own entity

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Aﬀordances and  Metaphorical Entailment

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Conclusion • Great teaching tool • Delightful • Need extra care on design

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