Bridging across content and tools

Authors:
Glorianna Davenport
Affiliations:
Associate Professor of Media Technology, Media Arts and Sciences Program, M.I.T. E15-433, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
Venue:
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
Year:
1994

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Abstract

Over the past 10 years, I have contributed to the development of two kinds of "multimedia environments." In the first, the human-machine partnership evolved as a means of accessing specific content for discovery and enjoyment - this was true for works such as "New Orleans in Transition" (1987), "Elastic Charles" (1988) as well as for several fictional narratives. In the second, the human-machine partnership was designed to allow users facilities for describing, managing and sequencing content. Both types of environments encourage the invention of richer human-readable pneumonics and incorporate machine-readable description as tools for content-look-ahead. What has fascinated me over the years is the complementarity which binds the generation of content and the design of tools. In fact we cannot talk about form without discussing content and the tools for accessing that content.