Gerhard Fischer and Hal Eden: “Design, Learning, and Collaboration” — Spring Semester 2006Assignment 8: Meta-Designpaper: Fischer, G., Giaccardi, E., Ye, Y., Sutcliffe, A. G., & Mehandjiev, N. (2004) "Meta-Design: A Manifesto for End-User Development," Communications of the ACM, 47(9), pp. 33-37. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/CACM-meta-design.pdf Important:we continue to split the members of the class into:1. producers (students giving answers) 2. analyzers and summarizers (students evaluating the answers from the other students) summarizers for assignment 81. Kiril Kireyev2. Lisa Doan The summarizers can do their work individually or jointly! due: Mon, Feb 201. producers: please submit by 10:00am to the class website – please be on time, so the “ summarizers” can do their work!2. summarizers: please submit by 2:00pm to the class website Briefly discuss the following issues:1. what do you consider the main message of the article?2. is meta-design for you 2.1. an interesting concept? why? 2.2. not interesting? why? 3. what do you consider the major technical and social challenges associated with meta-design? 3.1. technical 3.2. social 4. describe your own experience with meta-design? in which domains (not only related to computers) do you see interesting applications of the concept? 5. pick one system of your choice and analyze its meta-design aspects and capabilities? (e.g., Google Earth, Wikipedia, Open Source, Wikis/Swikis, ……. may be interesting candidates) hw8-NathanCampbell.doc hw8-keisukenishimoto.doc hw8 min-chieh hung.doc assign-8-John Lansing-Gary Knoll.doc hw8-laolengxiong.doc hw8-MalteWinkler.rtf hw8-marklewisprazen.doc hw8-lisadoan-summary.doc hw8-kirill-kireyev-SUMMARY.doc CGermain-Assignment 8- meta design.rtf
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