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Subject: RE:use of alternative metaphors and Analogies
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I would suggest starting with the Gentner and Stevens book Mental Models
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publisher).  The Chapter by Gentner and Gentner
"Flowing Waters or Teeming Crowds:  Mental Models of Electricity" sounds
close to the description given.  J. M. Carroll has several papers on metaphors
and cognitive representations (Int. J. of Man-Machine Studies and IEEE
Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics) but these date back to 1982 and
1985. The ACM SIGCHI proceedings usually have articles related to metaphors
and analogies in learning to use software systems.

Richard Upchurch
F1UPCHURCH@SEMASSU.BITNET