Beyond Metaphor: The Trinitarian Perichōrēsis and Dance

Beyond Metaphor: Visualizing Consciousness

Beyond Navigation as Metaphor

The popular view of navigation is that it is a conscious, goal directed activity i n which someone is trying to reach a destination. Such a view of navigation i s essentially individualistic, objectivist and cognitive. Just as Lynch's aim i n trying to specify the basic, discrete units of (urban) space have had a significant impact on urban planning and design, so the metaphorical use of the co...

Sensory - motor coordination: The metaphor and beyond

Any agent in the real world has to be able to make distinctions between different types of objects, i.e. it must have the competence of categorization. In mobile agents, there is a large variation in proximal sensory stimulation originating from the same object. Therefore, categorization behavior is hard to achieve, and the successes in the past in solving this problem, have been limited. In th...

Beyond the Desktop Metaphor in Seven Dimensions

The ubiquitous use of the desktop metaphor as the primary means of interacting with information is perhaps the earliest, and arguably the most profound, landmark of user interface design. Ironically, such a success is both a great past achievement and a difficult future challenge to overcome. Computing technologies and user experiences available to people in our current web-driven world are evo...

Beyond the Computer Metaphor: Behavior as Interaction

Behavior is often described as the computation of a response to a stimulus. This description is incomplete in an important way because it only examines what occurs between the reception of stimulus information and the generation of an action. Behavior is more correctly described as a control process where actions are performed in order to affect perceptions. This closed-loop nature of behavior ...