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Domain-Tailored Spatial Metaphors |
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INTERCHI ‘93: Workshop on Spatial Metaphors (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
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spatial metaphor, agents, direct manipulation, domain-oriented, interface builder, object-oriented, proactive interface, spreadsheets, UIMS, visual programming |
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Spatial metaphors play an important role in human-computer interaction by suggesting analogies to real-world situations. Based on common beliefs, these analogies can help users to make more efficient use of high-functionality systems. Our goal is to employ spatial metaphors to create new, improved approaches for programming. The use of spatial metaphors raises some issues. (1) Inconsistencies between real-world situations and metaphors may be necessary but they can confuse users. (2) The spatial metaphors employed in current user interfaces are very rigid, i.e., they cannot be extended by application designers or users. (3) Spatial metaphors focus on the user interface part of systems and neglect domain-specific functionality of applications. This paper elaborates on these issues and briefly describes three programming tools developed at the University of Colorado which make use of spatial metaphors. |
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