Beyond metaphors and icons: towards a perception-action model for graphic user interfaces

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  • Claudio Vandi
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How do we effectively understand graphical interfaces in order to act in the virtual ambient they create? Metaphors in user interfaces are meant to give the user a familiar context in which to act: an office with recycle bins, desktops, folders and files. The problem is that incoherence lies everywhere if we look beneath

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تاریخ انتشار 2007