Name
Abstract | ||
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Object Lens allows unsophisticated computer users to create their own cooperative work applications using a set of simple, but powerful, building blocks. By defining and modifying templates for various semistructured objects, users can represent information about people, tasks, products, messages, and many other kinds of information in a form that can be processed intelligently by both people and their computers. By collecting these objects in customizable folders, users can create their own displays which summarize selected information from the objects in table or tree formats. Finally, by creating semiautonomous agents, users can specify rules for automatically processing this information in different ways at different times.The combination of these primitives provides a single consistent interface that integrates facilities for object-oriented databases, hypertext, electronic messaging, and rule-based intelligent agents. To illustrate the power of this combined approach, we describe several simple examples of applications (such as task tracking, intelligent message routing, and database retrieval) that we have developed in this framework. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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1988 | 10.1145/58566.59298 | ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
intelligent message routing,electronic messaging,human factors,object lens,cooperative work,general terms: design,different situation,different kind,database retrieval,hypertext,own cooperative work application,different way,own display,management additional key words and phrases: computer-supported cooperative work,information lens,modifying template,intelligent agents,simple example,semiformal systems,object-oriented databases,rule-based intelligent agent,combined approach,economics,customizable folder,different time,working paper | Hypertext,World Wide Web,Intelligent agent,Message routing,Computer science,Cooperative work,Database retrieval,Knowledge management,Electronic messaging,Human–computer interaction,Template | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
6 | 4 | 0734-2047 |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
0-89791-282-9 | 121 | 78.40 |
References | Authors | |
16 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kum-Yew Lai | 1 | 563 | 253.25 |
| Thomas W. Malone | 2 | 4683 | 1862.38 |
| Keh-Chiang Yu | 3 | 140 | 82.11 |