This article analyzes and discusses problems related to the design of a force-feedback assistance service (FAS) for human-computer interfaces. FAS is a service which can be applied to human-computer interfaces which utilize a force-feedback pointing device, which guides the user’s hand in order to facilitate direct manipulation tasks: point, select, move and resize. The FAS uses artificial neur...

This workbook of etudes offers a collection experimental texts for communal dialogue and discovery that crosses multiple academic disciplines, including: foundations physics, metaphysics, theoretical biology, semiotics, cognitive science, linguistics, phenomenology, logic & mathematics, poetry theology. Each etude probes limits, horizons boundaries by implicitly bring into relation foundational...

Following Almor’s (1999) cost-function analysis of referential processing, we hypothesized that reading times of metaphoric anaphors are affected by readers’ working memory ability and reflect a balance between discourse function and processing cost. The results from two self paced reading experiments supported this hypothesis. Low span participants always read sentences with metaphoric anaphor...

This paper explores contemporary metaphoric usage invoked to describe interactions with digital media. The authors argue that such descriptions are indicative of positivist attempts to contain such interactions within the constraints of a reality bound by experiential knowledge outside of cyberspace or the virtual worlds it seeks to describe. Thus the authors suggest a metaphoric system or semi...

In this paper, based on the contemporary theory of cognitive metaphor, the metaphoric functions of Jamal (Beauty) and the clusters of images related to it, namely the world, man, face, sun, mirror, etc. in Mawlavi's lyrics are explained. In theology, the motif of conceptual metaphor of Jamal is Ro'yat (vision). Finding its way into mysticism, "vision" is expressed in the metaphor of B...

Giacomel, Zalaudek and Marghoob analyzed the different approaches of metaphoric and descriptive terminology in dermoscopy based on lessons from the cognitive sciences [1]. In our view, both approaches are used effectively daily and worldwide: • “Blink” is the first, more metaphoric-based diagnosis at a glance for most of the lesions in our clinical setting (e.g., “arborizing” vessels or “spoke-...