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User interface theory

All of the participants from the Media Lab (and many of the outsiders) were
actively engaged in the research and design of new media and user interfaces,
and were applying what we learned in NI to our work. Naturally we were in-
terested in other efforts to apply literary theory or related disciplines to UI
design. Brenda Laurel, Abbe Don, and Tim Oren, who were also participants
in the group, were the most notable authors in this area. The issue of agents
and character-based metaphors was and still is a prominent issue in the UI
community. Our focus was on the intimate relationship between character and
narrative.

Don, Abbe (1990). Narrative and the interface. In B. Laurel (Ed.), The art of human computer
interface design (pp. 383-391). Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley.
Laurel, Brenda (1990). Interface agents: metaphors with character. In B. Laurel (Ed.), The
art of human computer interface design . Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley.
Laurel, Brenda (1991). Computers as theatre . Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley.
Oren, Tim, Gitta Salomon, Kristee Kreitman, & Abbe Don (1990). Guides: Characterizing
the interface. In B. Laurel (Ed.), The art of human computer interface design . Reading,
Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley.

Software

We spent some sessions examining software, looking at how narrative was han-
dled, or simply trying to apply some of the intellectual tools we had to criticism
and analysis. We tried to apply reception theory and other tools to the analysis
of new media forms, including hypertext, The Visual Almanac, an early work
from Apple, programs for children, and the then-new genre of screen-savers.