In a project to collect medical data from devices in wearables, the contextual information is essential for use by medics in interpreting the data. We have developed a portal which provides interactive access to the state and context of the devices and to the information collected. The portal is based on a MUD, which provides an appropriate spatial metaphor to reflect the context in the physica...

While personal computing initially meant a single PC in an office, with the advent of the World Wide Web and the increasing trend of mobile devices personal information is no longer limited to a small, physical space. The desktop metaphor, stemming from the old days of the office container is now facing serious challenges. This work examines the vision of, and trend towards the personal informa...

We discuss the design of Photogeist: an augmented reality game which is based on a physical metaphor of a handheld camera as its main game interface. The gameplay requires the player to physically move around the game scene, sneak up on ghosts, and snap effective pictures documenting them using her paranormal phenomena-sensitive camera. The paper presents the motivation for Photogeist, its game...

despite the passage of 9 centuries of elaborative metaphor mentioning in persian rhetoric, the antecedents’ sayings already look repetitive and it is considered as one of metaphor tools in the most up-to-date points of view. criticizing the reports of experts and analyzing 13 different structures, a new research has been carried out in present essay. it finally ends with its aesthetic applicati...

There are three major issues which crop up in the discussion of metaphor among philosophers of language. They are: whether metaphor is cognitive, whether it is descriptive, and whether it is innovative. Those who deny that metaphor is cognitive are a group more often imagined than encountered, but if they existed they would consign the study of metaphor to affective stylistics, stressing the or...

This paper presents a historical examination of the influence of the Darwinian metaphor ‘the struggle for existence’ on a variety of scientific theories which inform our current understanding of the prospects for sustainable development. The first part of the paper traces the use of the metaphor of struggle through two distinct avenues of thought relevant to the search for sustainable developme...

In this paper, the system of language and architecture has been studied in three levels of elemental, structural and semantic in cases of traditional and modern mosques in Iran through the method of analyzing the content of texts and in a conceptual model. Then, in a comparative method, the common patterns of these systems have been explained at all three levels. The common features at the elem...

In the metaphor of behavioral momentum, the rate of a free operant in the presence of a discriminative stimulus is analogous to the velocity of a moving body, and resistance to change measures an aspect of behavior that is analogous to its inertial mass. An extension of the metaphor suggests that preference measures an analog to the gravitational mass of that body. The independent functions rel...

One of the elements in Persian poetry and sonnets (Ghazal) is penname, which in addition to marking poetry in the name of the poet, sometimes has an amphiboly to another means; but in the poetry of poets such as Hafez - which have a special and coherent intellectual system - in the form of a main metaphor or central metaphor, penname is involved in determining their intellectual system. In this...