A framework for engineering metaphor at the user interface

Alty, James L.; Knott, Roger; Anderson, Ben; Smyth, Michael

doi:10.1016/s0953-5438(00)00047-3

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“…Critical to the power of metaphor is that the convocation of source and target ideas must involve some transformation, hence users do actively construct the relationships that comprise the metaphor during interaction with the system (Alty, Knott, Anderson, & Smyth, 2000). Salient dissimilarities of the ideas-in the context of salient similarities-stimulate thought and can facilitate active learning (Carroll & Mack, 1999).…”

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“…Carroll & Mack, 1999;Mayer, 1975Mayer, , 1976Sajaniemi & Kuittinen, 2005) try to explain how metaphors operate in the mind to accomplish their effects; structural approaches (e.g. Alty et al, 2000;Gentner, 1983) focus on the structures of the target and the source in order to find some rules about the structural demands of a metaphor; and pragmatic approaches are empiric investigations about how metaphors work in practice. In order to design and implement systems with appropriate and functional metaphors all three approaches are essential.…”

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“…In order to design and implement systems with appropriate and functional metaphors all three approaches are essential. Some frameworks for this work have been suggested (Alty et al, 2000;Carroll et al, 1988;Madsen, 1994;Marcus, 1998), but we know of no report on simultaneous use of all three approaches in evaluating metaphors.…”

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An Empirical Evaluation of Visual Metaphors in the Animation of Roles of Variables

Stützle¹,

Sajaniemi²

2005

InSITE Conference

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Roles of variables, which describe stereotypic usages of variables, can be exploited to facilitate teaching introductory programming. This paper describes the evaluation of visual metaphors for roles used in a role-based program animator. The evaluation is based on several criteria: properties of the images, metaphor recognition and grading, and effects on learning. The study demonstrates that as a whole the role metaphors facilitate learning. The results also identify ideas for further elaboration of the individual metaphors. Furthermore, the study suggests that the evaluation of animated metaphors may require special measures.

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An Empirical Evaluation of Visual Metaphors in the Animation of Roles of Variables

Stützle¹,

Sajaniemi²

2005

InSITE Conference

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“…Here, a user must recall the functionality of the system to check the success of their task rather than utilize the immediate, spatial features of the GUI. The relationship between system functionality (S) and metaphorical interface design features (M) is described as intersection by Alty et al [4]. Each of the four conditions can be shown as continuous or discontinuous mappings within the ISML framework:…”

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“…More general guidelines for metaphor design can also be found in [13] [23]. Arguably, the most formalized approach to design can be found in Alty's framework [3] [4]. Here, a six stage process is outlined in which the intended system functionality and work environment is examined for potential metaphor 'vehicles' -these are subsequently evaluated against a set of guidelines.…”

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ISML: An Interface Specification Meta-language

Crowle

Hole

2003

Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification

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Abstract. In this paper we present an abstract metaphor model situated within a model-based user interface framework. The inclusion of metaphors in graphical user interfaces is a well established, but mostly craft-based strategy to design. A substantial body of notations and tools can be found within the model-based user interface design literature, however an explicit treatment of metaphor and its mappings to other design views has yet to be addressed. We introduce the Interface Specification Meta-Language (ISML) framework and demonstrate its use in comparing the semantic and syntactic features of an interactive system. Challenges facing this research are outlined and further work proposed.

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Industrial Engineering

Karlsson

2015

Wiley Encyclopedia of Management

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This thesis analyzes the relationship between users' characteristics and users' interface preferences. An online survey is developed for this study. This survey composed of two types of questions: (1) users' personal information such as age, gender, country, cognitive structure, and also computer experience and (2) user interface elements. More than 2,500 participants from 120 different countries throughout the world completed our survey. Results were analyzed using cross tables. Our findings show that there is a relationship between users' characteristics and users' interface preferences. In the presence of this relationship, an artificial neural network model is developed for the estimation of the interface preferences based on the user characteristics.

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A framework for engineering metaphor at the user interface

Cited by 37 publications

References 10 publications

An Empirical Evaluation of Visual Metaphors in the Animation of Roles of Variables

An Empirical Evaluation of Visual Metaphors in the Animation of Roles of Variables

ISML: An Interface Specification Meta-language

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