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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Summary of Responses -- Mailer Interfaces
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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 21:21:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 21 21:21:08 1987
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Reply-To: mayer@hplabsz.UUCP (Niels Mayer)
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Keywords: mail interface

Here's some references on more advanced issues in mail HCI, dealing
especially with mail messages as prestructured "Frames" that can be
interpreted on the receiving end to do "intelligent" things.

You might also to look at The Coordinator (Action Technologies Inc + Terry
Winograd, Stanford U.) and the Information Lens (Malone et al at MIT). The
former is a product that runs on IBM PC clones, and the latter is a
research project that (as far as I can tell) runs on Xerox
Dandelion/Daybreak style lisp machines.

* Winograd, T. & Flores, F (1986). "Understanding Computers and Cognition:
A New Foundation for Design". Ablex Publishing. -- talks about the
coordinator near the end of the book.

* Winograd, Terry A. "A Language/Action Perspective on the Design of
Cooperative Work" Stanford University Departement of Computer Science Tech
Report. (STAN-CS-87-1158). -- talks about the Coordinator system in the
framework of the theory of speech acts / conversations for action, etc.

* "Captured Conversations", Release 1.0, 24 September 1986. -- reviews the
Coordinator and the Info Lens side by side.

* "Intelligent Information-Sharing Systems" Malone, Thomas W et al.
May 1987 Vol30 Num5, Communications of the ACM. -- talks about the
Information Lens system.

Has anybody out there used the Coordinator? I've got a demo disk of the
Coordinator sitting on my "ToDo" pile, but it only runs on IBM PC style
machines and I've happily forgotten how to run those stupid things...


				-- Niels Mayer.