The Use of Metaphors in Iconic Interface Design

S. Richards, P. Barker, A. Banerji, C. Lamont, K. Manji
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Abstract Much of the success of iconic interfaces has occurred within application domains in which a consistent metaphor can be maintained. However, this approach can prove problematic when icons are designed for cross-cultural applications-where a generic metaphor can often prove elusive. Even when a suitable metaphor can be found the problem remains of developing icons (within a given metaphorical framework) for all the functionality that may be required. Within certain application domains this difficulty has been overcome by means of the parallel use of more than one metaphor. This is certainly true of iconic interfaces to information delivery applications (where ‘book’ and ‘travel’ metaphors are relatively common). The universality of the book metaphor within modern culture and its relevance to many of the cognitive tasks involved in information delivery applications have provided the primary motivation for our adoption of this metaphor in much of our work. However, we have also used multiple metaphor...
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隐喻在图标界面设计中的运用
许多标志性接口的成功都发生在可以维护一致隐喻的应用程序领域中。然而,当图标被设计用于跨文化应用程序时,这种方法可能会出现问题——在这种情况下,通用的隐喻往往是难以捉摸的。即使可以找到合适的隐喻,为所有可能需要的功能开发图标(在给定的隐喻框架内)的问题仍然存在。在某些应用领域中,通过并行使用多个隐喻来克服了这个困难。对于信息传递应用程序的标志性界面(其中“book”和“travel”的隐喻相对常见)来说,确实如此。书籍隐喻在现代文化中的普遍性及其与信息传递应用中涉及的许多认知任务的相关性为我们在许多工作中采用这一隐喻提供了主要动机。然而,我们也使用了多种比喻……
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