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Date: Mon, 4-Jul-83 11:51:50 EDT
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Yes, there was some very fascinating interaction work done at MIT, and all
the really interesting stuff that I've heard of was done by Nicholas
Negroponte's Architecture Machine Group (I have heard that he is no longer
in France, but is still on leave from MIT).  Their goal was (and is) to
develop a machine that can actively help an architect in the design process;
it is like expert systems, but with a fresh twist -- Negroponte felt that
in order to truly understand the design process and its goals, the
Architecture Machine would have to interact with people in as many ways as
a person interacts with his environment, so he did all kinds of interesting
things with touch panels, eye trackers, pointing trackers, wall-size
screens, and the like.  He published a lot of papers about it, many in
architectural magazines, and a couple of books (published by MIT Press, of
course: "The Architecture Machine" and "Soft Architecture Machines").

If anyone from the Architecture Machine Group is on the net, I'd be really
interested in hearing what you are doing now, and what kind of things
you have in the works.  Thanks.
	--ravi

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