Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hcr.UUCP Path: utzoo!hcr!ravi From: ravi@hcr.UUCP (Ravi Pandya) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Question on the mouse, comments abou - (nf) Message-ID: <442@hcr.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jul-83 11:51:50 EDT Article-I.D.: hcr.442 Posted: Mon Jul 4 11:51:50 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Jul-83 12:24:44 EDT References: <1354@orca.UUCP> Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto Lines: 20 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 {linus,floyd,allegra,ihnp4}!utzoo!hcr!hcrvax!ravi