scholarly journals Spatial metaphors and the design of everyday things

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Pitt ◽  
Daniel Casasanto
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Spatial Concepts ◽  
Metaphorical Thinking ◽  
Spatial Metaphors ◽  
Design Interfaces

People use space to think about a variety of non-spatial concepts like time, number, and emotional valence. These spatial metaphors can be used to inform the design of user interfaces, digital and otherwise, in which many of these same concepts are visualized in space. Traditionally, researchers have relied on patterns in language to discover habits of metaphorical thinking. Here we argue that researchers and designers must look beyond language for evidence of spatial metaphors, many of which remain unspoken despite their pervasive effects on people’s preferences, memories, and actions. We propose a simple principle for predicting spatial metaphors from the structure of people’s experiences, whether those experiences are linguistic, cultural, or bodily. By leveraging the latent metaphorical structure of people’s minds, we can design interfaces that help people think.

scholarly journals A SYSTEMATIC COLLECTION OF NATURAL INTERACTIONS FOR IMMERSIVE MODELING FROM BUILDING BLOCKS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 283-292
Author(s):  
Jakob Harlan ◽  
Benjamin Schleich ◽  
Sandro Wartzack
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Hand Tracking ◽  
Spatial Concepts ◽  
Natural User Interfaces ◽  
Modeling Systems ◽  
Block Based ◽  
Natural Interactions ◽  
Tracking Technology ◽  
Systematic Collection

AbstractThe increased availability of affordable virtual reality hardware in the last years boosted research and development of such systems for many fields of application. While extended reality systems are well established for visualization of product data, immersive authoring tools that can create and modify that data are yet to see widespread productive use. Making use of building blocks, we see the possibility that such tools allow quick expression of spatial concepts, even for non-expert users. Optical hand-tracking technology allows the implementation of this immersive modeling using natural user interfaces. Here the users manipulated the virtual objects with their bare hands. In this work, we present a systematic collection of natural interactions suited for immersive building-block-based modeling systems. The interactions are conceptually described and categorized by the task they fulfil.

scholarly journals The heart’s downward path to happiness: cross-cultural diversity in spatial metaphors of affect

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-218
Author(s):  
Ewelina Wnuk ◽  
Yuma Ito
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Spatial Concepts ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Spatial Metaphors ◽  
Metaphorical Mapping ◽  
Degree Of Similarity

Abstract Spatial metaphors of affect display remarkable consistencies across languages in mapping sensorimotor experiences onto emotional states, reflecting a great degree of similarity in how our bodies register affect. At the same time, however, affect is complex and there is more than a single possible mapping from vertical spatial concepts to affective states. Here we consider a previously unreported case of spatial metaphors mapping down onto desirable, and up undesirable emotional experiences in Mlabri, an Austroasiatic language of Thailand and Laos, making a novel contribution to the study of metaphor and Cognitive Linguistics. Using first-hand corpus and elicitation data, we examine the metaphorical expressions: klol jur ‘heart going down’ and klol khɯn ‘heart going up’/klol kɔbɔ jur ‘heart not going down’. Though reflecting a metaphorical mapping opposite to the commonly reported happy is up metaphor, which is said to link to universal bodily correlates of emotion, the Mlabri metaphors are far from idiosyncratic. Rather, they are grounded in the bodily experience of positive low-arousal states, and in that reflect an emic view of ideal affect centered on contentment and tranquility. This underscores the complexity of bodily experience of affect, demonstrating that cultures draw on the available sensorimotor correlates of emotion in distinct ways.

Moving Forward

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet B. Ruscher
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Spatial Metaphors ◽  
The People ◽  
Stationary Objects ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Affective Forecasts

Two distinct spatial metaphors for the passage of time can produce disparate judgments about grieving. Under the object-moving metaphor, time seems to move past stationary people, like objects floating past people along a riverbank. Under the people-moving metaphor, time is stationary; people move through time as though they journey on a one-way street, past stationary objects. The people-moving metaphor should encourage the forecast of shorter grieving periods relative to the object-moving metaphor. In the present study, participants either received an object-moving or people-moving prime, then read a brief vignette about a mother whose young son died. Participants made affective forecasts about the mother’s grief intensity and duration, and provided open-ended inferences regarding a return to relative normalcy. Findings support predictions, and are discussed with respect to interpersonal communication and everyday life.

Tactile melodies in user interfaces

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik A. H. C. van Veen ◽  
Jan B. F. van Erp
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces

VRML use for iterative usability testing of user interfaces: A novel continuum robotic limb example

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua A. Gomer ◽  
Kristin S. Moore ◽  
Matthew C. Crisler ◽  
Martha J. Kwoka ◽  
Christopher C. Pagano
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Usability Testing ◽  
Continuum Robotic
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