A history of personal workstations
A history of personal workstations
The dynabook: past, present, and future
A history of personal workstations
The GUI-OOUI War, Windows vs. OS/2: the designer's guide to human-computer interfaces
The GUI-OOUI War, Windows vs. OS/2: the designer's guide to human-computer interfaces
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Harvard Business Review
Interface metaphors and logical analogues: a question of terminology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design
About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design
Knowledge Representation and Metaphor
Knowledge Representation and Metaphor
Information, Systems and Information Systems: Making Sense of the Field
Information, Systems and Information Systems: Making Sense of the Field
Macintosh human interface guidelines
Macintosh human interface guidelines
The role of vendor companies in IS/IT outsourcing
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Interface metaphor design and instant messaging for older adults
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Text vs visual metaphor in mobile interfaces for novice user interaction
Information Services and Use - 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing --ELPUB 2012 --Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the Interplay between Culture and Technology
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The use of metaphors is pervasive in all forms of discourse. This paper is concerned with providing a brief review of the development of metaphor theory,illustrated with some examples of supportive empirical research.These include a canonical study of the way concepts of instruction and education are influenced, a study into the effects of human-computer interface metaphors on computer systems users,and a study designed to assess the impacts of metaphor use on attitudes to internet commerce, particularly on attitudes to the roles played by information technology (IT). The paper provides some contextual background to assist consideration of the effects of metaphors on attitudes and beliefs.In practice, metaphor use may be intentional,unconscious,or a mixture of both, but in any case metaphors can be shown to play powerful roles in the social construction of human reality.