Our most fundamental concepts of musical motion and space, used by laypeople an d music theorists alike, are defined by conceptual metaphors that are based on our experience of physical motion. We analyze the 3 most important metaphors of musical motion : the "MOVING MUSIC." metaphor, the "MUSICAL LANDSCAPE" metaphor, and the "MOVING FORCE" metaphor. We show how each metaphor is grounded in a p...

Abstract This research seeks to contribute the understanding of problem motivation regular practice physical and sporting activities. To do so, we analyze metaphorical use word “malhar”, which, in Brazil, is associated with exercise. One hundred ninety four people participated “free association method”, by saying from one three words or expressions that came immediately their minds, inductor te...

Metaphors are generally accepted as essential to the design of effective human computer interfaces. However, “The generally assumed theoretical benefits of user interface metaphor are supported by surprisingly little empirical evidence.” (Blackwell, 1998) This paper discusses the concept of “concrete metaphor” and the problems that it presents in interface and interaction design. Concrete metap...

In accessibility tests for digital preservation, over time we experience drifts of localized and labelled content in statistical models of evolving semantics represented as a vector field. This articulates the need to detect, measure, interpret and model outcomes of knowledge dynamics. To this end we employ a high-performance machine learning algorithm for the training of extremely large emerge...

Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) posits that the metaphorical ways in which we talk about abstract concepts are indicative of the ways in which we think about those concepts. In a recent test of this hypothesis, Casasanto (2007) considered the metaphor SIMILARITY IS PROXIMITY. He found evidence to suggest that the effect of physical proximity on similarity ratings differs dep...

Designing metaphors in interaction design is to make users understand a system quickly based on their experiences. Object-oriented design principle is a programming style with objects, instead of data, as its metaphor. Originated from the physical world, object-oriented principle has developed into more complex form after these years of hard working by engineers in the digital space. Besides, o...

The spatial metaphor can be used as a framework for exploration process, refine their information goals (Foss explaining and designing tools that alleviate disorientation problems in 1989a. Foss 1989b. McAleese 1989). . ~ ~ ~ , ~, hypertext systems. The approach based on this metaphor would involve The disorientation problem occurs when the user 'gets developing tools analogous to navigational ...

The study of metaphor dates back to the times of Aristotle and touches on various aspects of human reasoning and multiple disciplines. Since the first inquiries, the theory of metaphor has evolved significantly under the influence of linguistic and psychological findings [3, 63, 31, 29, 25, 15, 4, 17, 18], and the establishment of the fields of artificial intelligence [2, 45], cognitive science...

the main purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of metaphor and its functions in education. there are two main parts in this paper: the first is to discuss the six major classic and modern theories of metaphor according to their cognitive and intellectual functions , and the second is to identify and classify the four types of figurative language including metaphor, simile, allegory an...

Virtual architecture is a networked spatial environment designed using the metaphor of physical architecture, from which virtual architecture inherits many visual and spatial characteristics. However, in order to further explore its potential, virtual architecture need to go beyond its physical metaphor to develop its own theories and styles. One important step of this process is to establish a...