A taxonomy of user-interface metaphors

Proceedings - SIGCHI-NZ Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction, CHINZ 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 25-30

  Barr, Pippin ^a   Biddle, Robert ^a   Noble, James ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

heuristics; metaphor; user interface

Indexed keywords

HEURISTICS; METAPHOR; USABILITY HEURISTICS; USER INTERFACE DESIGNS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TAXONOMIES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 35048816312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2181216.2181221     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (14)

1. Andersen, P. B. A Theory of Computer Semiotics, vol. 3 of Cambridge Series on Human-Computer Interaction. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
2. Blackwell, A. Metaphor in Diagrams. PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, September 1998.
3. Carroll, J. M., Mack, R. L., and Kellogg, W. A. Interface metaphors and user interface design. In Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, M. Helander, Ed. Elsevier Science Publishers, 1988.
4. de Saussure, F. Cours de linguistique générale. Charles Bally et Albert Sechehaye, 1916.
5. Erickson, T. D. Working with interface metaphors. In The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, B. Laurel, Ed. Addison Wesley, 1990.
6. Gibson, J. J. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986.
7. Gougen, J. An introduction to algebraic semiotics, with application to user interface design. In Computation for Metaphor, Analogy and Agents, C. Nehaniv, Ed., vol. 1562 of LNAI. 1999, pp. 242-291.
8. Lakoff, G., and Johnson, M. Metaphors We Live By. The University of Chicago Press, 1980.
9. Laurel, B. Computers as Theatre. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1993.
10. Mandel, T. The Elements of User Interface Design. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1997.
11. Nielsen, J. Heuristic evaluation. In Usability Inspection Methods, J. Nielsen and R. L. Mack, Eds. John Wiley and Sons Inc., 1993.
12. Nielsen, J. Usability Engineering. Academic Press, 1993.
13. Norman, D. A. The Design of Everyday Things. Doubleday, 1988.
14. Wozny, L. A. The application of metaphor, analogy, and conceptual models in computer systems. Interacting with Computers 1, 3 (1989).