The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.
Intellectually as well as materially, the Anthropocene is a deeply cultural phenomenon. This includes its communicative form, which is a contested trope‐rich narrative, even within the sciences. In this essay I focus on the role of metaphor in Anthropocene thought and in particular, on the provocative, ambiguous, and potentially far‐reaching idea of humans as a geological force. By considering the...
The strong revenue generating engines of mobile social games have caught attention of both researchers and the industry. The analysis of revenue-generating engines has identified the characteristics of service engineering in the era of social media and services. One such finding is that mobile social game design creates different types of satisfaction with a single service, which is unique in social...
Metaphor is the result of human mind conceptualizing the world. In many previous studies about metaphor, space and time are thought to be the two most fundamental concepts in cognition, by which other concepts are constructed. Nevertheless, discussion of the metaphoric structuring of time in natural language is rare, not to mention the time concept in Chinese. This paper aims to evaluate whether the...
While Kansei has a variety of meanings, it is important to integrate those various meanings and form an essential model of Kansei being applicable to engineering. In this paper, we propose a conceptual cognitive scheme of Kansei assuming that the basic notion of Kansei consists of two functions in mind, i.e.,1) how to feel the world and 2) how to represent it. It is a unique point of the scheme to...
The role of Malaysian government in realizing the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) goal of creating a world-class e-government web portal in Malaysia is very important as it helps citizens or customers to interact and used the services. This requires a good interface design to enhance the cognitive in human thus support human cognitive strength and weaknesses. However, MyEG as one of the Government-to-Citizens...
In this paper we present Tangible humidifier, a simple tangible interface that use emotion metaphor to convey meaning in its interaction design. Our purpose is to take advantage of natural physical metaphor to achieve a heightened legibility and seamless ness of interaction between people and information. At the same time we attempts to make control system invisible with embedded sensors. Advances...
In this paper we present Tangible light, a simple tangible interface that use behavioral and emotional metaphor to convey meaning in its interaction design. Our purpose is to take advantage of natural physical metaphor to achieve a heightened legibility and seamlessness of interaction between people and information. At the same time we attempts to make control system invisible with embedded sensors...
In this paper we describe an interactive emotional social virtual framework for autistic young people age 11 -14 to learn verbal and non-verbal emotional expression in role-play situations. In order to provide an interactive learning environment with some degree of automatic metaphorical understanding from open-ended text input, new developments on affect detection for the processing of several metaphorical...
Metaphor as part of the cognitive linguistic theory has penetrated into different fields and different styles of discourses. It can be found in almost all kinds of styles of writing discoursed. By studying the developing stages of metaphor, especially by analyzing different kinds of usage of the conceptual metaphor in cognitive linguistics, this paper finds that conceptual metaphor in cognitive linguistics...
In this article, a novel logic which concerns with the natural property of context is presented, the cognitive state of the agent is considered and the dependency relationships between the word and the sentence, the word and the article, etc. can be inferred. First the cognitive dependency operator is put forward, then the logical system is established, the axioms and the properties of the system...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.