In this paper, we investigated the process of interestingness cognition in metaphor comprehension. We did this from the point of view that the interestingness of a metaphor (e.g., “life is like a gamble”) is related to its interpretative diversity. Two studies were conducted to assess this phenomenon: Study 1 (interpretation-production) and Study 2 (interpretationpresentation study). In Study 1...

Previous research suggests that graphical metaphor should increase the usability of visual programming languages (VPLs) by providing an instructional aid when learning to use the language. This paper describes three experiments which manipulated the degree of metaphor in VPLs. In the first, an implicit pictorial metaphor was added to a dataflow language, while in the second and third an explici...

Argument by multimodal metaphor usually plays a vital role of persuasion daily. In this paper, we analyse the argumentation of Lin Dan Commercial (LDC), an anti-corruption advertisement broadcasted on China Central Television, with conceptual metaphor theory and multimodal metaphor, in order to carry out an evaluation of the reasonableness and effectiveness of the argument. On practice, this re...

Research on metaphor has generally focused on exploring its context-dependent behavior and function. This current study aims to testify the postulate of English verb's innate trait of Metaphor Making potential. This paper intends to carry out an in-depth case study of a group of English core verbs using WordNet and SUMO ontology. In order to operationalize the assessment of an English verb’s me...

We present a new metaphor for learning anatomy the 3d puzzle. With this metaphor students learn anatomic relations by assembling a geometric model themselves. For this purpose, a 3d model is enriched with docking positions which allow objects to be connected together. As complex 3d interactions are required to compose 3d objects, sophisticated 3d visualizationand interaction techniques are incl...

Software systems are subject to ever increasing complexity and in need of efficient structuring. The concept of organization as an expressive and abstract realworld reference presents a promising starting point. In the field of computer science, organizations have particularly been studied within the multi-agent systems community. However, the individual agent metaphor turns out to be of rather...