introduction: psychological symptoms of non-cardiac chest pain (nccp) including perceptual, emotional, and behavioral problems can effect patient perception of chest pain. this study was conducted to determine the effect of metaphor therapy on mitigating depression, anxiety, stress, and pain discomfort in patients with nccp. materials and methods: this randomized, controlled, trial was conducte...

An original parallel algorithm is presented that stems from a suitable physical metaphor by considering each edge of the graph as a cell that is attracted by the corresponding vertices and finally moves towards the one of them that wins the competition.

New interfaces for vibrotactile interaction with touchscreens are realized. An electromagnetic design for wireless actuation of 3D-printed conductive tokens is analyzed. Example music interactions are implemented using physical modeling paradigms, each investigated within the context of a particular token that suggests a different interaction metaphor.

Embodiment research has primarily focused on metaphor-assimilative effects (e.g., perceiving someone to be socially warmer when holding a warm object). Research shows these effects can occur by activating metaphor-associated knowledge constructs. This account is not sufficient, however, for explaining complementary effects--for example, the tendency to prefer social warmth when experiencing phy...

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...

The aim of this paper is to reconsider the phenomena traditionally treated as cases of metonymy and to suggest a way of accounting for their production and comprehension. In the first half of the paper I critically review some previous attempts to deal with metonymy. I focus in particular on the classical approach, the associationist approach and the Gricean approach. The main point of my criti...

Migration from desktop-based to alternative out of the desk visualisations, could help to overcome some of the issues that are related to traditional screen representation problems. But simultaneously, it represents a challenge in which many technical and ethical questions have yet to be answered. In the following sections some thoughts about how visualisation outside the desktop could be appli...

This paper describes a technique for the recognition and tracking of every day objects. The goal is to build a system in which ordinary desktop objects serve as physical icons in a vision based system for man-machine interaction. In such a system, the manipulation of objects replaces user commands. This method is based on sampling a local appearance function at discrete viewpoints by projecting...