Metaphors and Context-Aware Information Access

Authors:
Peter Coschurba;Joachim Baumann;Uwe Kubach;Alexander Leonhardi
Affiliations:
Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems (IPVR) University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems (IPVR) University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems (IPVR) University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany;Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems (IPVR) University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Venue:
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Year:
2001

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Abstract

Metaphors are often used to provide the user with a mental model to ease the use of computers. An example of such a metaphor is the commonly used “Desktop Metaphor”. Metaphors also can be used to ease context-aware information access for the users of mobile information systems. In this paper we present a taxonomy that allows the categorisation of such metaphors. Furthermore, we give an overview of existing metaphors and their implementations. After introducing some new metaphors we conclude our considerations with a classification of new and existing metaphors using our taxonomy.