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From Metaphors to Simulations to Idioms: Supporting the Conceptualisation Process

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Ambient Intelligence (EUSAI 2004)

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The concept of metaphor has been used in UI design in a loose manner. There is a need to conceptually separate it from related concepts to restore the power it used to have in rhetoric. It is also important to understand the life cycle of metaphor, how it changes over time in the conceptualisation process. This is especially topical in ubiquitous computing, in which entirely new concepts and interaction styles are introduced. In this paper, we describe the use of metaphors and related concepts in theory and apply the approach in a mobile application.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä, FI-40014, Finland

    Antti Pirhonen

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, Den Dolech 2, 5600MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Panos Markopoulos

  2. Faculteit Industrial Design, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Postbus 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Berry Eggen

  3. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Emile Aarts

  4. INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot, France

    James L. Crowley

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Pirhonen, A. (2004). From Metaphors to Simulations to Idioms: Supporting the Conceptualisation Process. In: Markopoulos, P., Eggen, B., Aarts, E., Crowley, J.L. (eds) Ambient Intelligence. EUSAI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3295. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30473-9_27

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