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End-User Programming
Who needs it?
and…
Why?
Build simulations Be able to express and communicate
complex ideas Education
History Math Music Geology Logic Programming Art
AgentSheets is an authoring tool allowing end-users to build their
own interactive simulations and publish
them on the Web
The Grape Boycott
EcoWorldsElementary 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”
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
LEGOSheets
LEGOSheets in Action
Out of this World(very distance education)
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
Use End-User Programmable Agents to Bridge the Gap between Existing and Relevant
Informationon the Web
The Syntactic
Web
The Semantic
Web
The Pragmatic
Web
The Pragmatic Web
Boulder Live
The browserless
agent-based
Web
Why?
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
AgentSheets®
Amplify your Thoughts
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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