In 1987 Apple produced the Knowledge Navigator video, which presented in scenario form the kind of user interface that they thought knowledge workers would be using twenty or more years in the future. Over the last week there’s been considerable interest raised by Jon Udell’s revisiting of that video, and his review of how accurate […]
Month: November 2003
Agent-based user interfaces for collaboration
Today I dug out an old academic-style paper I wrote in 1992, On the Definition and Desirability of Autonomous User Agents in CSCW, and put a web version in my archives section. (CSCW stands for Computer-Supported Co-operative Work.) I think the paper still stands up fairly well as a critique of the idea that our […]