metaphor in interaction design

Metaphor in Interaction Design

Rung-Huei Liang, NTUST, OPENHCI 2009

Let’s talk about MusicBottles

Music is perfume.音樂即香氣[FORM] is[METAPHOR]

Desktop and Windows

Dan Saffer says

Nearly everything one says about a computer is metaphoric.

Paul Tillich : “Everything one says about God is metaphor”

Microsoft BOB

Metaphors We Live byOur conceptual system … is fundamentally metaphoric in nature

~Lakoff

abstract tangible

Bill Verplank Interaction Design Sketch

Fishkin’s Metaphor Dimensions

• No metaphor• Metaphor of Noun• Metaphor of Verb• Metaphor of Noun+Verb• Full Metaphor

No Metaphor

The BitBall Programmable Beads

No Metaphor

noun metaphor

Object looks like the real thingActions are at most weakly related to real-world

Metaphor of Verb

Object acts like the real thingShape of object irrelevant

noun and verb metaphor

Object looks and acts like the real thing – but they are still different

URP: MIT Media Lab

FULL METAPHORReally Direct Manipulation

Illuminating Clay

Form and Metaphor

1D form: text and language

2D Visaphor

3D Physical FormAram Bartholl

4D Form: Ritual Aram Bartholl