This document discusses the use of metaphors in interaction design. It explores different levels of metaphor usage from no metaphor to full metaphor where the object looks and acts like the real thing. It also examines metaphors across different dimensions of form, from one-dimensional text to four-dimensional rituals. Common metaphors in design include representing concepts like music or windows through physical objects.

1. Metaphor in Interaction Design Rung-Huei Liang, NTUST, OPENHCI 2009

2. Let’s talk about MusicBottles Music is perfume. 音樂即香氣 [FORM] is[METAPHOR]

3. Desktop and Windows

4. Dan Saffer says Nearly everything one says about a computer is metaphoric. Paul Tillich : “Everything one says about God is metaphor”

5. Microsoft BOB

6. Metaphors We Live by Our conceptual system … is fundamentally metaphoric in nature ~Lakoff

7. abstract tangible

8. Bill Verplank Interaction Design Sketch

9. Fishkin’s Metaphor Dimensions No metaphor Metaphor of Noun Metaphor of Verb Metaphor of Noun+Verb Full Metaphor

10. No Metaphor The BitBall Programmable Beads

11. No Metaphor

12. noun metaphor Object looks like the real thing Actions are at most weakly related to real-world

13. Metaphor of Verb Object acts like the real thing Shape of object irrelevant

14. noun and verb metaphor Object looks and acts like the real thing – but they are still different URP: MIT Media Lab

15. FULL METAPHOR Really Direct Manipulation Illuminating Clay

16. Form and Metaphor 1D form: text and language

17. 2D Visaphor

18. 3D Physical Form Aram Bartholl

19. 4D Form: Ritual Aram Bartholl