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One of the motivations for undertaking the systems engineers’ study was to understand their needs in order to populate and tailor a version of the wOrlds system as a collaborative environment to support their work. At a very early stage in the study, however, it became obvious that the spatial metaphor embodied in the wOrlds system did not match the way in which these people worked.
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This touches upon the whole debate about the appropriate role and limits of metaphors for systems design, e.g., (Madsen, 1994). It is not my intention to further this debate here but rather to question the appropriateness of simulation in this instance.
This system was seen during a demonstration at CHI’96, based on the paper (Darner et al., 1996).
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Fitzpatrick, G. (2003). Moving from Space to Place. In: The Locales Framework. The Springer International series on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0363-5_6
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