Human Computer Interaction ( HCI )

tags : Creative Programming, Education Research Resources, General Programming, Learning How to learn, Alternative Internet, Representing Time and Date

Scattered Topics §

Spatial Canvas §

Brainstorming tools §

• Muse — dive into big ideas
• Kosmik • For All Mindkind
• Granola
• Fermat - Build & use your own AI tools
• Arc Browser Easle thing
• Tldraw??

Sense-making tools §

• These also fall under tools of thought??
• LiquidText
• elicit

n-dimensional computing §

Future of Coding §

• Replace textual code with domain-specific direct-manipulation interfaces. See Engraft, Engraft (Talk recording, UIST 2023) - YouTube

Personal computing §

• LN 000: The Lab Notes : Alexander Obenauer
• The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology (2021) | Hacker News

AR §

VR §

• 4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering | Hacker News

Playful software §

• See this tweet and Issue 002 / Internet Playgrounds
  • Playful software != video games. I mean tinkerable, whimsical, playful consumer software: creative software, social networks, dating apps, messengers
  • Play that’s not segregated from ordinary life
  • Tinkerability, accessibility, low cost, easy to make mistakes — fun

Malleable software §

• Tweet from Geoffrey Litt
  • Software environments that mold to user needs, not the other way around
  • Ingredients may include: enriching documents w/ behavior a la Potluck, LLMs for code editing, local-first as an enabling foundation…
  • What if, instead of making an app for you, an LLM could make you an app construction kit?

Reactive databases §

• Building Personal Software with Reactive Databases (PhD defense at MIT) - YouTube
• See Local First Software (LoFi)

Explanatory Explanations / Creative Programming §

• See Primary tool-chest (Creative prog & HCI section)
• Spellburst: A Node-based Interface for Exploratory Creative Coding with Natural Language Prompts
• Nutshell: make expandable, embeddable explanations
• Issues
  • User of the explanation might not hit all the useful points of the explanation (maybe X-Y-Z-T was an important path to follow but got missed)
  • Cost in development and in design

Live Programming §

• LIVE 2023 - The Ninth Workshop on Live Programming - SPLASH 2023

Learnable programming §

• Learnable Programming (2012) | Hacker News

Collaborative software §

• See Chapter 1 | Chatting with Glue by maxkriegers

Collaborative Knowledge systems §

• Thoughts from from azlenelza

  • Enable people to collectively learn and build knowledge as a group?
  • System that goes beyond forums and linear discussion threads, with highlights and summarization to distill key ideas
  • Think about
    • Teaching peers as an individual helps to identify gaps and deepen your own knowledge of a topic
    • Teaching future learners as a group perhaps helps identify gaps and deepen collective knowledge

• Other projects

  • Higher Fidelity Systems for Online Discussion - YouTube
  • Deliberatorium - Wikipedia
  • Golden.com

Local first software §

• See Local First Software (LoFi)
• PLF 2023 - Programming Local-first Software - SPLASH 2023
• {SPLASH’23} Room VI (Oct 24th) - YouTube

Tools of thought and Memory §

• How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
• Literary Machines - Wikipedia

Information organization (2nd brain stuff) §

• mymind is the extension for your mind.
• obsidian/roam/ org-roam
• Digital Scholar (Zotero etc.)

Knowledge Extraction §

• Ask HN: Extracting Knowledge Graphs from LLMs | Hacker News
• yoheinakajima/instagraph

Visual programming §

• Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes | Hacker News

Notations §

• The Origins of the Generic Mapping Tools | Hacker News
• Representing Time and Date
• Notational Programming for Notebook Environments
• Lindenmayer Systems | Hacker News
  • Lindenmayer systems - log_coffee!
• Orthic Shorthand – Write as fast as you type | Hacker News
• GitHub - prathyvsh/notation: Repo to track the evolution of notation in arts and sciences
• GitHub - k-qy/notation: Collection of quotes on notation design & how it affects thought.
• GitHub - christianvoigt/argdown: a simple syntax for complex argumentation

PAINT (Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments) §

• PAINT 2023 - SPLASH 2023

Visualizing Data §

• See Data Visualization
• “Supporting Data Journalism through Compilers for Visual Inputs” by Parker Zi…
  • Journalism in the Digital Age | Hacker News
  • AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff | Hacker News

End user development/programming §

• This is more of an idea, giving the ability to extend the system in someway. Eg. plugins etc. But also being able to programatically interact with it etc.
• End-user development - Wikipedia
• output-directed programming environment
  • cartokit: Style maps (See Geography)
• Voice directed programming
  • Cursorless is alien magic from the future - Xe Iaso

X-programming §

• Creative Programming
• Flow based programming
• What is Table-Oriented Programming? | Lobsters
• Functional Programming

Resources §

Org/Companies/Comms §

Companies/Products §

• Valtown

  • See Val Town
  • Val Town Runtime v3 – My mistakes were easy, the solutions simple
  • The API we forgot to name

Labs §

• Folk Computer
• Inkandswitch (both hci and local first)
• Dynamicland

People §

• Alan Kay

  • Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version) - YouTube
  • Lunch with Alan Kay | Future of Coding