Gerhard Fischer and Hal Eden: “Design, Learning, and Collaboration” — Spring Semester 2007
Assignment 6: Meta-Design
paper: 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 will 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 6
1. Yingdan Huang
2. Tyler Brown
The summarizers can do their work individually or jointly!
due: Wed, Feb 14
1. 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 an
2.1. 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 Software, Wikis/Swikis, YouTube, Facebook, 3D Warehouse……. may be interesting candidates)
hw6-PengShao.doc
hw6-sax.doc
hw6-coreydavis.pdf
hw6-JasonHeld.doc
hw6-mangalath.doc
hw6-NickTodd.doc
hw6-BrianBrown
hw6-AndyHoffner.doc
hw6-Speir-Zeles.doc
hw6-JarretLavallee.doc
hw6-JonDormody.doc
hw6-sum-yingdan.pdf
hw6-sum-TylerBrown.doc
Swiki has wrong system clock! - yingdan
hw6-DaveMusson copy.doc