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For IBM and Avon Products (1965): Contract accounting application which let contract managers model the world as they, rather than systems developers, saw it. Users as experts and essential to system development.<\/p>\n

Programming language structures, at MIT (1968): created representations of program execution centered on conceptual models of computation<\/p>\n

Ambit-G at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (1968): TX-2 interactive graphic applications based on interaction through drawn symbols<\/p>\n

ROSS, for BBN (1973): air traffic control simulation exploratory application which separated and integrated normative and observed vehicle motion<\/p>\n

Hermes, for BBN (1975): e-mail application which let users extend message semantics by defining new message fields<\/p>\n

Operability, with Lucy Suchman, for Xerox (1981): observational studies of operating a copier, which including work on user\u2019s conceptual models of machines, following instructions, the evolution of understanding, and the management of trouble.<\/p>\n

Trillium, for Xerox (1981): user-interface design application which let designers extend their language of design by creating parameterized interaction objects<\/p>\n

Rooms, with Stuart Card for Xerox (1986): workstation infrastructure which recognized and supported multi-tasking, by let users define-through-use and manage concurrent windows configurations<\/p>\n

Buttons, for Xerox (1986-1988): user-constructed interaction objects that let users design, capture, share and invoke their common or repeated operations, thus extending the semantically-open construction of coding into user space<\/p>\n

For Xerox, at PARC and EuroPARC (1980-1988): Social science as essential for system development<\/p>\n

For Fitch (1989): design as essential for system development<\/p>\n

Computation in design, with John Rheinfrank and Shelley Evenson, for Fitch (1989): design consultancy including the integration of interactional elements in the structure and language of systems design<\/p>\n

Architecture of user interface, for Xerox (1991-1994): Incorporation of a technology- in-use perspective into a corporate-wide technical architecture<\/p>\n

Discourse architecture, for Apple (1995): structural components of computer operating systems to support the user\u2019s concurrent interaction with many applications running in a coherent workstation environment.<\/p>\n

Pliant computing, with Jed Harris (1999): analysis of the need and possibilities for addressing evolving and socially-produced ontologies in system development<\/p>\n

For Rivendel Consulting & Design (1997-2002): analysis and system development for workplace design for fluid and distributed work<\/p>\n

For Pitney Bowes (2002-2010): in-practice analysis of corporate advanced product creation from a technology-in-use system development perspective, leading to development practices that integrate user value, technical possibility, financial attractiveness and corporate capability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Designing for the Unanticipated (2008): Analysis of the place and practice of regularity and exception in socio-technical systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Conceptual Models\u00a0<\/em>(2011; with Jeff Johnson): modeling as applied to the users’ concept of the interaction of a system;\u00a0produced the book\u00a0Conceptual Models: Core to Good Design,<\/em> Morgan & Claypool, 2011.<\/p>\n

Evolutionary development (2010 – present; with Jed Harris):\u00a0Applying the principles of evolution that have worked well for eons and more recently for large scale software\u00a0(open source) to aggregated development of all kinds at scale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Computation in people\u2019s activities<\/span><\/h4>\n
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