Metaphors for Meaningful Documents

Meaningful tips for achieving meaningful use.

Pictorial metaphors for information

The iSquare Research Program is an arts-informed, visual study in which people answer the question “What is information?” in the form of a compact line drawing, coined an “iSquare” (Hartel, 2014a). Since 2011, more than 2,000 iSquares have been collected from diverse academic disciplines and from around the world. In this presentation, Dr. Jenna Hartel will provide an overview of the iSquare pr...

Metaphors for visualization

This paper investigates the use of several common objects such as spray cans, ashlights, carving knives, and others as metaphors for visualization. The motivation behind this work is to provide an intuitive and natural 3D interface such that users will view these objects as tools during the visualization process. To help achieve this goal, the selection of the object tools are derived from expr...

Similes and Metaphors for Creativity

 A Metaphor is represented by the insertion of a concept (often a single word) belonging to a specific semantic context, without any additional comment, into a sentence that presents concepts belonging to a different context  A Simile is an explicit comparison between a concept, or more often a process, an activity, belonging to a context and a correspondent concept/process coming from a diff...

Metaphors Create Theories For Users

The notion of a spatial information theory is often understood in the sense of a theory underlying the design and implementation of geographic information systems (GIS). This paper offers a different perspective on spatial information theories, taking the point of view of people trying to solve spatial problems by using a GIS. It discerns a need for user level theories about spatial information...