Contents tagged with Knowledge and Collaboration
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Introducing Bracky
I've been talking a lot about UI agents lately and how I'm currently prototyping some UI agent stuff for web applications. Today I'd like to introduce Bracky:
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Information Bridge Resources and FAQ
Over the next couple of months I'm planning to get out to each of the User Groups in Australia and New Zealand to discuss the Information Bridge Framework (IBF). I'm going to use this post to link to some resources and to provide an overview of what IBF is.
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Smart UI agents and inductive UI
Continuing on from my blog entries last week about automated UI agents, I've started building a small prototype which will hopefully lead to an actual implementation. In my prototype I have several agents accessing shared context through which they have some access to shared resources - such as logging tool and reporting agents. As I mentioned, the output from my prototype will be an implementation, but I'm also preparing to cover it with a whitepaper on some of the lower level details.
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Autonomous Interface Agents
Web applications that are context aware will be able to make greater use of autonomous agents to directly manipulate graphical objects and affect the users display. The MIT paper titled "Autonomous Interface Agents" says of autonomous agents:
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Out of context - how to know whether Tweety can fly
In the excellent whitepaper titled "Out of context: Computer systems that adapt to, and learn from, context", there's a section nearing the end titled: "The view of context from other fields" - containing the following subsections:
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Coaching end-users
Today I had a conversation with a friend who is a musician. We were discussing some of the similarities between music and software and even extending many of them to any creative pursuit where the output is consumed by others. One of the things that we noted was that, as with software, end-users of music do not always share the feelings and experiences envisaged by the architects of the product. I'm not sure how a musician can give corrective advice to an end-user about such a discrepancy at "runtime" but, in software we are fortunate that we can use context and UI elements to teach a user about the intended usage of a system.
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Grokking Information technology
My days of using handcrafted Access database applications to automate inventory reconcilliation seems to be nothing but a distant blur. Too soon it seems that I was whisked away from my accounting world of Office applications and surrounded by millions of rows worth of raw data. There's something about real, raw data that seems to make my nerve edges jingle in a merry way.
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Day 4: 3 subscriptions
Three additions today, bringing my tally for the week up to 9 (including one which I made up). This is well short of a budgetted quota of 5 per day which means that I'm falling behind already. Anyhow... todays additions are:
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Day 3: added only 1 subscription
Just one subscription today as the submissions seem to be drying up...
Brad Abrams weblog
Hi Darren, Brad here, just wanted to drop my USP in for you to take a look at: -
Information Bridge
Next week I'm giving a demo on IBF (Information Bridge Framework). The IBF allows users to leverage some existing Office technologies - namely, the Research Task Pane and SmartTags - to perform interactions with line-of-business data.