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VII.4 July 2000
Page: 19
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Design: innovating with OVID


Authors:
Daniel Corlett

The general principle of an OOUI is to use familiar objects to model the real world as the user normally interacts with it, and then to map the environment onto a computer. OVID has already been used successfully in this context at IBM in designing software such as RealPhone and RealCD. However, if instead of simply automating everyday tasks on a computer, we decided to innovate and develop new working environments and practices, how easy is it to use such a modeling technique to create the ideal interface? A group of six student software designers and programmers discovered the…




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