A guide to metaphorical design
Communications of the ACM
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The reification of metaphor as a design tool
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Creativity methods in interaction design
DESIRE '10 Proceedings of the 1st DESIRE Network Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
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This study investigates the effectiveness of design techniques as a means for uncovering metamemory, an attribute of metacognition, and its role in information seeking. A focus group with four adolescents aged 13 and 14 used design techniques such as brainstorming and sketching, metaphorical design and fictional inquiry, to help express their thinking about their own memory processes during the information search process. Results showed that metaphorical design and fictional inquiry are both effective tools for revealing conceptual thinking about metamemory and information seeking. Coupling these techniques with brainstorming and sketching helped the teens to visualize and communicate their ideas. Results from this study will contribute to knowledge about adolescent thinking, metamemory, and information seeking behavior, broaden the range of methodological approaches used in the study of information seeking behavior, and will provide cognitive models for the design of information systems and tools that scaffold metacognition.