Journal
INTERACTING WITH COMPUTERS
Volume 21, Issue 1-2, Pages 66-75Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2008.10.005
Keywords
Physical interaction; Embodied interaction; Metaphor; Augmented environments; Audio environments
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- National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
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A recent trend in ubiquitous computing is the development of new forms of interfaces, which rely on embodied interaction. We focus on the definition of embodiment that refers to the ways in which abstract concepts rely oil metaphorical extensions of embodied schemata shaped by processes below the level of Conscious awareness as explored by Lakoff and Johnson [Lakoff, G.,Johnson, M., 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA]. Our inquiry focuses on understanding the role embodied metaphors may play in Supporting people to understand the possibilities for physical interaction in augmented spaces. We explore this issue through the development and evaluation of an interactive audio environment. We instantiate metaphor theory by using embodied schemata as the basis for the interactional metaphor that relates full-body input actions to audio Output responses. We demonstrate and explore the benefits of this approach through a comparative experiment in which adults and children learn to use our audio environment. The results from our experiment indicated that embodied metaphors improve usability however, other factors including discoverability, perceivability of feedback and duplicity of structural isomorphism may mediate these metaphor-based benefits. We have generalized our main findings as a set of suggestions for the design of embodied style interfaces that rely on physical interaction. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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