Date and time:
Venue: 10.08.04
Chair: Xiaodong Li
Abstract:
Tinderbox is a consumer tool for making, analyzing, and sharing notes through weblogs. Some people find Tinderbox more difficult to learn than other consumer software, but its embrace of prototype inheritance seems not to be the primary obstacle. Interestingly, almost all users choose to create class objects even though neither the system semantics nor the documentation suggest or enforce this.
Evaluating lifestyle software, however, is fraught with complications. I argue, in fact, that our familiar methodological tools can observe changes that matter only slightly to us, while leaving us blind to those effects that most significantly impact our user's lives.
This talk is based on a recent presentation Mark gave to
About the speaker:
Mark Bernstein is the chief scientist at Eastgate Systems (http://www.eastgate.com). He is the developer of stand alone hypertext systems (Storyspace) and Personal Information Managers (TinderBox) that combine extensive hypertext, agent, and annotation features. He is a significant and prolific contributor to the international hypertext community, bridging computer science and the humanities. His blog is located at: http://www.markbernstein.org (published out of Tinderbox)
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