Re: [ba-ohs-talk] new version of graph model paper posted
I'm with you 100% here Alex. (01)
I think some interesting stuff will come out of work with children. They
have fewer preconceived notions about interfaces being "the best of all
possible worlds"
(Voltaire reference: http://www.ericjonas.com/features/candide/home.asp ) (02)
Kidpad is a project to watch. They've got a zoomable user interface which
they've given to children for collaboration and storytelling. Stories become
visual because the writing surface has no physical size constraints. (Still
2d though). (03)
kidpad
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/kidpad/ (04)
based on jazz
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/jazz/ (05)
similar to Looking Glass
http://www.cincro.com (06)
...Steve
www.memes.net (07)
> The point of all this is that a picture is a much more effective way to
> communicate then movements on tape, and that similarly text should be made
> more visual by making the associations between sentences explicit. And
...
> one way of doing this is to assign nodes to paragraphs, and edges to
> references. (08)