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No it does not. It persents you with pictoral clues, yes. But they have nothing to do with any real life experience. they are an artificial language that you or anyone using a computer has to learn.

It is no "Real Life".

What obvious? The claim was that the computer gui had something to do with "real life". It does not. It may use metaphors whith highly limited usefulness as you point out below.

No. They are not real life. They are an artificial manufactures limited language. It certainly is useful. But it is not useful because of any resemblence to "real life" . It does use aspects of human preception not used in printed language, and uses the human visual pattern matching processes. But it does not do so in any way resembling "real life".

OK, I spend lots of time at a desk so the metaphor of a "desktop" with pieces of paper lying about on it is a natural part of my environment. But how the gui models anything in dump truck driver's life is beyond me.

Maybe it is but not because it bears any resemblence to real life.

Uh, no probably not. that does NOT make use of the pattern matching processes we are so good at.

No, it is not. The desktop is an artificial language that we learn as we do any other language. It happens to be a very simple one.

Precisely, because what you do has nothing to do with "opening and closing windows" from real life. It is a bad metaphor, which gets in the way more than it helps the user. He-She has to dissociate the meaning in this context from the meaning in "real life" to get anything done on the computer.