The ever growing music collections on mobile devices renders the habitual browsing schemes – such as browsing by artist or by often ambiguous and inflexible genre terms – obsolete, as the collection is not organized by means of user’s perception. During this thesis a visual browsing scheme for mobile devices has been introduced and developed on Android, a free mobile software platform. A high d...

In this paper, we investigated the process of interestingness cognition in metaphor comprehension. We did this from the point of view that the interestingness of a metaphor (e.g., “life is like a gamble”) is related to its interpretative diversity. Two studies were conducted to assess this phenomenon: Study 1 (interpretation-production) and Study 2 (interpretationpresentation study). In Study 1...

Previous research suggests that graphical metaphor should increase the usability of visual programming languages (VPLs) by providing an instructional aid when learning to use the language. This paper describes three experiments which manipulated the degree of metaphor in VPLs. In the first, an implicit pictorial metaphor was added to a dataflow language, while in the second and third an explici...