This paper presents our prototype Run Chicken Run which is a game platform where user can interact with a hacked electric toy “E-chicken” through physically metaphorical movement. By wearing input devices on elbows and then flapping arms, user can control the pace of movement of the E-chicken. In this way, the user interacts physically with the toy and socially with other players as well. To en...

Beginning in 1983, simulated annealing was marketed as a global optimization methodology that mimics the physical annealing process by which molten substances cool to crystalline lattices of minimal energy. This marketing strategy had a polarizing effect, attracting those who delighted in metaphor and alienating others who found metaphor insufficient at best and facile at worst. In fact, the em...

conceptual metaphor is the most prominent achievements in cognitive linguistics and cognitive semantics. based on this theory, most of the parts of our vision system and mindset is naturally metaphorical, which structures our way of thinking and understanding. therefore, our understanding has strong relationship in all aspects, and since the ethical implications are naturally abstract, metaphor...

Systemic functional grammar constructs a grammar for the purpose of text analysis to investigate how grammar is used as a means of making meaning. Grammatical metaphor is one of the language phenomena introduced by Halliday (2004) in the framework of functional grammar. The present work focuses on the application of Halliday’s metafunctional framework in health texts of English newspapers. The ...

In this paper, we discuss the different ways in which modern European boardgames (“Eurogames”) are converted for digital play. We review digitised versions of three popular tabletop boardgames: Puerto Rico, Agricola and Ascension. Using these examples, we demonstrate the tension between the interaction metaphor of the original analogue medium and the metaphor of a digital game. We describe the ...

As I write this sentence, I am glancing over at the color printer sitting beside my screen. In the popular jargon of the computer industry, that printer is called a "peripheral"—which, upon reflection, is a rather odd way to describe it. What, precisely, is it peripheral to? If the ultimate goal of my activity is to produce a physical artifact, then one would have to conclude that the printer i...

There are few words in our language that adequately express pain. To express emotional or physical pain to another human being we often rely upon metaphor. Self-mutilation is generally an unspoken expression of an internal and intangible experience. This behavior makes the unseen experience concrete. In some cases the process and outcome of self-mutilation is an explicit metaphor for the mind o...

Composite Interface Metaphors 2 Two experiments describe how a composite metaphor interface (CMI) for performing website tasks can be developed using an iterative and theory-based design approach. The CMI consisted of two semantically unrelated metaphors: the library metaphor and the travel metaphor. A new componential model for predicting the effectiveness of CMIs is described and used for der...

As Noel B. Salazar (2018: 153) suggests, Mobility is all-pervading as a metaphor for the contemporary world, both in its physical forms and imaginative implications. may well have beco...