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Metaphor mayhem: mismanaging expectation and surprise

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Volume 1 , Issue 1 (January 1994) table of contents

Pages: 41 - 43

Year of Publication: 1994

ISSN:1072-5520

Author

Aaron Marcus

Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc., Emeryville, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 1, Downloads (12 Months): 14, Citation Count: 5

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CITED BY 5

	Aaron Marcus, Metaphor design for user interfaces, CHI 98 conference summary on Human factors in computing systems, p.129-130, April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, California, United States
	Aaron Marcus, Metaphor design in user interfaces: how to effectively manage expectation, surprise, comprehension, and delight, Conference companion on Human factors in computing systems, p.373-374, May 07-11, 1995, Denver, Colorado, United States
	Aaron Marcus, Metaphor design in user interfaces: how to manage expectation, surprise, comprehension, and delight effectively, CHI '97 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems: looking to the future, March 22-27, 1997, Atlanta, Georgia
	Y. C. Hsu , E. Boling, An approach for designing composite metaphors for user interfaces, Behaviour & Information Technology, v.26 n.3, p.209-220, May 2007
	Aaron Marcus, Managing metaphors for advanced user interfaces, Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced visual interfaces, p.12-18, June 01-04, 1994, Bari, Italy

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
Subjects: Theory and methods

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
H.1.2 User/Machine Systems
Subjects: Human information processing; Human factors

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Theory

REVIEW

"Richard L. Upchurch : Reviewer"

Marcus speaks of the power of the interface and the challenges to the designer. The first part of the title is descriptive of the content of the paper. The author warns of the dangers in future systems. The future is now, if we do not get our more...

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