Computer applications that run on desktop and laptop computers have, for a long

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Computer applications that run on desktop and laptop computers have, for a long time, been designed to be driven by dragging and clicking a mouse. With the introduction of tablet personal computers, the trend has shifted toward using touch-based screens. We now have access to touch-based TVs, touch-based monitors, and touch-based laptops. Touch and multi-touch devices provide end users with the ability to interact physically with an application much more naturally. Imagine that you have been assigned the task of redesigning your company Computer applications that run on desktop and laptop computers have, for a long time, been designed to be driven by dragging and clicking a mouse. With the introduction of tablet personal computers, the trend has shifted toward using touch-based screens. We now have access to touch-based TVs, touch-based monitors, and touch-based laptops. Touch and multi-touch devices provide end users with the ability to interact physically with an application much more naturally. Imagine that you have been assigned the task of redesigning your company

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A widely cited design metaphor discussed in [4] tells the story of how the Canon team was
inspired by the metaphor of a beer-can copier. The beer can copier should be as simple and
inexpensive to manufacture as a beer can. The metaphor promoted the idea of keeping the copier as a shell, where the parts that are more likely to break down are allocated to the regularly replaced cartridge. In 1981 Apple promoted their new Apple computer as a bicycle for the mind . More recently, Ryokai and colleagues at the MIT Media Lab developed the metaphor The World Is A Palette in their project

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