Year: 1998
Type: dissertation
Abstract: To the members of the UVA CS department for their personal support and their generous support of the UIGroup, through the years.To Jeni Willoughby and the teachers, administrators, and students in the Lynchburg Virginia School Systems for the courage and leadership it took to deploy the beta version of Alice in their high school.And finally to Cassi Sendroff, age 11, and her sister, Eireann age 13, for the wonderful Alice worlds they created and for their perseverance with Alice, especially in the face of inadequate documentation.Their accomplishments with Alice were wonderful and surprising, and an unexpected validation of this work. Chapter 1 -The Three Stages of Media 10The content of any medium is always another medium Marshall McLuhanChapter 1The Three Stages of MediaThe Alice project traces its roots back to early 1991, when the first Virtual Reality systems were being built at the University of Virginia.Starting with a desire to build new interaction techniques for immersive, head-tracked Virtual Reality (VR) simulations, we quickly found that the tools that were available for this work were extremely hard to use for exploring a new user interface design space.Realizing that this itself was a reasonable research agenda, we set out to build programming tools that were easier and faster to use, not just for ourselves but for as many people as we thought reasonably possible.This effort, though it started with several tentative prototypes under a variety of names 1 , soon settled into what is now called the Alice project.We took as our charter the task of making interactive 3D graphics much more accessible to 19 year old "non-programmer" 1 Alice is the lastest system in a series of prototypes that we built starting in the early 1990s.Previous systems were named RPVR, Strobe, and Joe.We never had a system named Dave.1.Wordpad is a very simple text editor that ships with Windows 95. Chapter 6 -Empirical Evidence 91You can observe a lot just by watching Yogi BerraChapter 6 Empirical Evidence 6.1
DOI: 10.18130/v3m85j
Author: Matthew J. Conway
Institution: University of Virginia
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Science Applications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4244415541