From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Ozan Yigit Message-ID: References: <20010712084649.299C9199C0@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] architectures Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:13:48 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c81c858c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk writes: > contrary to Tog's advice on this point: with care i suspect > you can make abstractions simple and effective enough without insisting on > drawing a tenuous likeness to something in the `real world'. An interesting related bit of work is "The Anti-Mac Interface" by Don Gentner and Jakob Nielson, Communications of the ACM, 29(8), pp. 70-82 August 1996, but also found online. i wish we could have more of this kind of de/re-construction; attempting to break all the interface design rules and see what comes out. the results of this particular attempt are more along the lines of raisin-bran cereal than waldorf salad but thought provoking nevertheless. oz -- www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz | if you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe york u. computer science | we'll just have to make some! -- hobbes