Project overview

Major Research Questions

1. How come paper-based metaphor worksheets used in class are more effective than computational variants like Meta4acle?
2. What kind of information do people need to create, interpret, and apply metaphors to product design tasks?
3. What abilities can computational metaphor tools afford designers that paper-based variants do not?

Software Overview

Production Environment

best.berkeley.edu server

CentOS 5.6

Python 2.4

(Django - needs setup)