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About HyperScope 2.0 0

Intro 1

Welcome to the all-new HyperScope beta proto­type, offering an enhanced browsing and editing experience on the web. Basic features include flexible view control, jumping around with fine-grained addressability, and more. 1a

HyperScope is an evolving prototype, envisioned as a proof of concept for Doug Engelbart's 'laundry list' of baseline features, *still* missing in prevailing information technology, still needed to fulfill the promise of new media, 'augmenting the human intellect' and 'boosting the Collective IQ' in the effective engagement of teams, organizations, and networked initiatives. These are baseline features of a larger world-wide Open Hyperdocument Systems (OHS) paradigm. 1b

This evolving prototype initially supports interacting at the file or document level, with basic provisions for individual and team repository management and navigation. 1c

Project Overview 2

Hyperscope is a demonstration prototype, a proof of concept, and a full-featured working prototype used in the development and pilot usage of the Hyperscope prototype. 2a

The earlier version offered a Dashboard style user interface for browsing, as shown in the demo top right. Although we've moved on from that UI, it still gives a feeling for the underlying browsing functionality, with baseline precision navigation and flexible view control. 2b

The latest version adds full-featured editing, and sports a verb-noun UI, much like Siri's "call so-and-so" or "find my phone." Two most basic notable features include fast, flexible jumping and linking with fine-grained addressability, and on-the-fly view control, while browsing and editing. The verb-noun command scheme offers an infinitely expandable repertoire in a streamlined format. One big expansion from the earlier version is the addition of full-featured editing – e.g. "delete this" or "replace this with that," or "transpose this with that." A multi-pronged litmus test is applied when considering new features to add -- does it make individual and team users more effective and efficient in the tasks at hand; does it provide a sense of flying through information space and landing with precision; does it allow the user to stay laser focused on content (rather than darting around looking for the right virtual UI buttons, menu selections, and command-key keystrokes); and does it provide a seamless progression drawing the user from beginning to advanced levels of proficiency. 2c

Coming Soon! A video demo of the latest version is coming soon. 2d

Cue Cards & User Documentation 2e

If the dream of improving human destiny isn't enough, how about the thought that the companies that adopt the best Collective IQ improvement strategy will have a significant competitive advantage. Wouldn't you want your group to have the highest Collective IQ?

For Developers 3

  • The Hyperscope 2.0 prototype is powered through javascripts and CSS, written initially to run on Mac OS Terminal. It is designed as an evolving proof of concept of the kind of functionality Doug Engelbart was calling for in About OHS, toward open source, community engagement and hands-on pilot usage. 3a
  • Developers Website - see hyperscope.dev where you'll (soon) find related resources. 3b
  • User Interface - for simplicity our pre-beta version used a dashboard style UI, our latest sports a verb-noun command interface. We welcome a variety of alternate UX choices, especially those that offer a sense of flying through information space and landing with precision, with on-the-fly view control, ... (see Doug Engelbart's OHS Paradigm for details). Watch some vintage examples in these earlier UI prototypes. 3c

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