The Island Metaphor

Authors:
Bill Tomlinson;Eric Baumer;Man Lok Yau
Affiliations:
University of California, Irvine;University of California, Irvine;University of California, Irvine
Venue:
ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Research posters
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper presents an "Island Metaphor" for interactions with systems of heterogeneous computational devices employing mobile agents. In this metaphor, stationary computers represent islands of virtual spaces, and mobile devices represent virtual rafts that allow agents to move through a sea of real space. The Island Metaphor provides several benefits over existing computational metaphors, and may be relevant to applications in education, entertainment, and social technologies.