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Dimensions Group 1

Eytan Adar
Jeffrey Bigham
Lydia Chilton
Margaret Burnett
Tessa Lau
Christopher Scaffidi

Uses and Users

·         Typical user, what do they need to know?

Implementation – browser versus non-browser

·         API – extensibility

·         Released?

·         URL for downloads/book URL?

·         Open source?

·         How are they created (input representation)

·         Visual artifact  - text, pipes, bookmarks (text + images)

·         Output representation  

Evaluation - Lab study, in the wild (field study), etc.

Placement in the cycle – debug, create, etc. (borrow from software engineering terminology)

Benefits and contributions, scientific contributions? (notable features?)

Opportunities? Limitations?  Open problems…

Knowledge

·         Synonyms

·         What the system knows versus what the user Knows

·         Prerequisite background (what do you have to know as the user?)

Support for collaboration

·         Co-scripter

·         Mira’s system

·         Matlab system

·         Social accessibility

Spinoffs and variations (related work?)  See also

Study – does the study address the dimension?