The power of metaphor has long been recognized in user interface design and more broadly in human interaction circles. More recently metaphor also found its way into the software development process. This paper aims to combine occurrences of metaphor in the two fields with ideas from the field of model driven architecture. We suggest that it is possible to create conceptual patterns based on metaphor that allow a high level description of interaction models and user interfaces, and can at the same time serve as structural units for modeling software applications. Categories and Subject Descriptors

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