标题： 通过隐喻驱动设计原型化数字社交空间：将空间概念转化为交互式社会模拟 显示英文标题

标题： Prototyping Digital Social Spaces through Metaphor-Driven Design: Translating Spatial Concepts into an Interactive Social Simulation

摘要： 社交媒体平台是交流的核心，但其设计仍狭隘地聚焦于参与度和规模。 尽管研究人员提出了在线空间的替代愿景，但这些想法在平台限制下难以进行原型设计。 在本文中，我们介绍了一个基于隐喻的系统，帮助用户想象和探索新的社交媒体环境。 该系统将用户的隐喻转化为结构化的平台功能集，并生成由大语言模型驱动的代理填充的交互式模拟。 为了评估这种方法，我们进行了一项研究，参与者创建并互动了模拟的社交媒体空间。 我们的研究结果表明，隐喻使用户能够表达不同的社会期望，而模拟的感知真实性取决于它捕捉亲密感、参与度和时间参与等动态的程度。 最后，我们讨论了基于隐喻的模拟如何成为原型设计替代社交架构的强大设计工具，并扩展未来社交平台的设计空间。 显示英文摘要

摘要： 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.