Metaphor and the Cognitive Representation of Computing Systems

In learning, people develop new cognitive structures by metaphorically extending old ones. The metaphors spontaneously generated by new users will predict the ease with which they can master a computer system. Systems which through their interface suggest inefficacious metaphors will accordingly be more difficult to learn and to that extent unacceptable.

• Publication year

  1982

• Venue

  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

• Publication date

  1982-03-01

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/TSMC.1982.4308795
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