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 by Our 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

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 thing Actions are at most weakly related to real-world

Metaphor of Verb Object acts like the real thing Shape 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 METAPHOR Really Direct Manipulation Illuminating Clay

Form and Metaphor 1D form: text and language

2D Visaphor

3D Physical Form Aram Bartholl

4D Form: Ritual Aram Bartholl