用隐喻设计社交空间原型，让用户可视化探索新型社交平台。
Prototyping Digital Social Spaces through Metaphor-Driven Design: Translating Spatial Concepts into an Interactive Social Simulation
- 通过用户隐喻生成结构化功能，驱动交互式社交模拟。
- 模拟中亲密感与参与度越接近真实，用户感知越真实。
- 适合未来社交平台设计者和数字空间研究者参考。
社交媒体平台虽是沟通核心，但其设计仍局限于提升参与度与规模。尽管研究者提出过替代性在线空间构想，却难以在现有平台限制下实现原型验证。本文提出一种基于隐喻的设计系统，将用户的隐喻转化为平台功能组合，并生成由大语言模型驱动的代理构成的交互式社交模拟。通过让用户创建并体验模拟空间，我们发现隐喻能有效表达不同的社交期待，且模拟的真实感取决于其对亲密性、参与度和时间投入等动态的捕捉程度。研究结论表明，隐喻驱动的模拟可作为强大的设计工具，助力探索替代性社交架构，拓展未来社交平台的设计空间。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Social media platforms are central to communication, yet their designs remain narrowly focused on engagement and scale. While researchers have proposed alternative visions for online spaces, these ideas are difficult to prototype within platform constraints. In this paper, we introduce a metaphor-driven system to help users imagine and explore new social media environments. The system translates users' metaphors into structured sets of platform features and generates interactive simulations populated with LLM-driven agents. To evaluate this approach, we conducted a study where participants created and interacted with simulated social media spaces. Our findings show that metaphors allow users to express distinct social expectations, and that perceived authenticity of the simulation depended on how well it captured dynamics like intimacy, participation, and temporal engagement. We conclude by discussing how metaphor-driven simulation can be a powerful design tool for prototyping alternative social architectures and expanding the design space for future social platforms.
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