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Extending software through metaphors and metonymies

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Simone D. J. Barbosa,

Clarisse Sieckenius de SouzaAuthors Info & Claims

IUI '00: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Pages 13 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/325737.325756

Published: 09 January 2000 Publication History

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This article is about applications that can be customized or extended through their own user interface. This is achieved by the interface's ability to interpret users' non-literal expressions, namely metaphorical and metonymic ones. Such increased interpretive intelligence depends on static and dynamic models of the domain and application, from which new figurative meanings are abducted automatically or semi-automatically. The system performs controlled modifications on the underlying models, based on its interferences about users' intentions as they produce figurative utterances.

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Extending software through metaphors and metonymies
1. Human-centered computing
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2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1757268.1757271
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73107-8_2
de Souza CBarbosa SPrates RTremaine M(2001)A semiotic engineering approach to HCICHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/634067.634104(55-56)Online publication date: 31-Mar-2001
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/634067.634104
de Souza CBarbosa Sda Silva S(2001)Semiotic engineering principles for evaluating end-user programming environmentsInteracting with Computers10.1016/S0953-5438(00)00051-513:4(467-495)Online publication date: Apr-2001
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