People in Our Software

  • Authors:
  • John Richards;Jim Christensen

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center;IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Game Development
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

People are not well represented in today's software. With the exception of IM (instant messaging) clients, today's applications offer few clues that people are actually living beings. Static strings depict things associated with people like e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and home-page URLs. Applications also tend to show the same information about a person, no matter who is viewing it.