End User Development WHO needs it?

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End User DevelopmentWHO needs it?

• Alexander Repenning

Thought Amplifier
CEO AgentSheets Inc.
CS Prof. University of Colorado
AgentSheets
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What End-Users?What Applications?

• The ultimate question in end-user development
  and end-user programming is who these end-users
  are.
• Who are these end-users?
• What are the applications?
• I will show a number of users/applications that
  we encountered in our last 12 years of research
  using the AgentSheets authoring tool

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AgentSheets

• Be able to express and communicate complex ideas
• Education
• History
• Math
• Music
• Geology
• Logic
• Programming
• Art

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Use EUD to create Multimodal Interfaces
Keyboard Mouse Speech synthesis Sound Speech
recognition PITA board
Web
Information in the world
Database
Sensor (e.g,. GPS)
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We pioneered a number of end-user programming
paradigms

• First AgentSheets users community kids
• Graphical Rewrite Rules for Agents
• Programming by Analogous Examples
• Tactile Programming
• Behavior Templates

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K-12 Students /Education
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Demo Bridge Builder
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EcoWorlds
Elementary school kids design their own animals,
share them through the web and explore the
sustainability of the resulting EcoWorlds
I will eat you If I lower my reproduction rate
this world will become more stable
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The Grape Boycott
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AgentSheets in India

• When the Jiva-Java Project started, its 20
  secondary students had never used a mouse or seen
  the Web. Three weeks later, they had created
  applets (using Agentsheets authorware) and linked
  them to their own Web pages
• Ed Gaible at the Jiva Institute
• Faridabad, Haryana , India

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EUD can work in different cultures and languages
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Scientists /Communication
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Out of this World(very distance education)

• NASA used AgentSheets to simulate an E.coli in
  microgravity experiment aboard the space shuttle
  Discovery with John Glenn

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Render Static Data USGS Map of Boulder, CO,
rendered in 3D as simulation background
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Integrate Data with Simulation Mudslide
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Kids and Artists /Robotics
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LEGOSheets
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LEGOSheets in Action
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Researchers / Collaborate Agent Architectures
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Collaborate Games
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Everybody / Web Information Processing
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The Pragmatic Web
The Syntactic Web
The Semantic Web
The Pragmatic Web
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Use End-User Programmable Agents to Bridge the
Gap between Existing and Relevant Informationon
the Web
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Example Web Voice Portal
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The Pragmatic Web can

• Serve as framework for End-User Development of
  Web services
• Make information accessible to disabled, e.g.,
  blind or motor skill challenged
• Have agents access information user controlled,
  e.g. voice commands, or autonomously
• Have agents synthesize new information
• Create information processing ecologies make
  agents sharable goods (email, Web).
• Access information on small wireless devices
  including PDAs and cell phones

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PDA
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Cell Phones
Agents Extract, analyze and synthesize
information Increase signal to noise ratio Bridge
modalities, e.g., text ltgt speech
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Cognitively Disabled /Public Transportation
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Real-time tracked buses
Simulated person
Stops
Speech interface
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Potential EUD Network contributions

• Expertise in
• building end-user programming systems
• End-user programmable component-based
  architectures for Rapid Distributed Software
  Development
• Component tools to build JavaBean components
• Extensible tools (e.g., AgentSheets) to create
  custom languages
• Localizable (2byte) compiler tools to generate
• Java applets
• Macromedia Flash movies

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Some credentials

• NAS Exemplary Information Technology for
  Education
• WWW5 Most Creative Educational Application of
  the World Wide Web
• Major of Paris
• NSF 8 million funding
• ACM1 Best of the Best Innovator
• European Commission advisor to new End-User
  Computing initiative

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