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Applying Metaphor on Wearable Device Design

Zhang, Boya
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4762-0525
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439281992

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2015, MDES, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Design.
Metaphor began as a kind of the rhetorical methods in traditional linguistics area. But with the deepening of the research in metaphor, metaphor has been applied to diverse disciplines and fields. Metaphor is the imagination connecting the similarities of characteristics and attributes of two different objects. It is also a kind of thinking phenomenon which the characteristics and attributes are mapped from the source area to the target area. Metaphor is a method in which old experiences are used to replace new ones, and it also evokes similar memory, emotion and resonance to the viewer’s when they are using the new product. Metaphor could bring positive impacts to the design. But in addition to literal interpretation of metaphor, there is no clear framework to explain how metaphor is used in the design practice. The purpose of this thesis is to find out a specific representation, which can give designer a clear clue when applying metaphor on their design. Finally this article will propose a framework to describe how to apply metaphor into the wearable device design.
Gerald Michaud, M.A. (Committee Chair)
Dianne Hardin, M.S. M.Des. (Committee Member)
Juan Islas Munoz, M.A. (Committee Member)
61 p.
Design
Metaphor; Wearable Device Design; Anaerobic Exercise

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  • Zhang, B. (2015). Applying Metaphor on Wearable Device Design [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439281992

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Zhang, Boya. Applying Metaphor on Wearable Device Design. 2015. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439281992.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Zhang, Boya. "Applying Metaphor on Wearable Device Design." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439281992

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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