Chapter 2 Imaginization as an approach to interactive multimedia

Abstract Recently, it has become an important issue in human computer interaction how to conceptualize humans' spontaneous interaction with the multimedia interface, and how we can design this interface so as to satisfy the demands of communicative competence in the dialogue. Using phenomenological philosophy, Kirkeby and Malmborg give an interpretation of how metaphors are created and used in common language, and extend this interpretation to comprise also our cooperation with the computer. In its ideal realization, such a spontaneous creation of metaphors is called imaginization . The authors also show how to categorize the new media in relation to the dimensions of closeness and situatedness .