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But maybe our intuition is wrong here: "Hundhausen and colleagues found that how the visualizations were used matters a lot. For example, using visualizations

by jkscm 12y ago

But maybe our intuition is wrong here: "Hundhausen and colleagues found that how the visualizations were used matters a lot. For example, using visualizations in lecture demonstration had little impact on student learning. But having students build their own visualizations had significant impact on those students’ learning." p.118 Oram, Andrew, and Greg Wilson. 2011. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It. Farnham; Cambridge: O’Reilly.

vanderZwan 12y ago
The Pharo guys are working on that: https://vimeo.com/channels/ndc2014/97315968 https://vimeo.com/channels/ndc2014/97315968 Starts slow, but gets really interesting (disclaimer: I'm a biased interaction designer in this regard, I love this stuff) halfway in. Pharo might actually become a very good fit for Victor's idea of a big-screen "seeing room" debugging environment, now that I think of it - combine it with some of Victor's idea of drawing dynamic visualisations[1] it would probably be a great environment for creating tools on the fly, and the "everything is an object" model is fitting for the tinkering-mentality of the maker space. [1] https://vimeo.com/66085662 https://vimeo.com/66085662
- seanmcdirmid 12y ago
  Does Pharo support anything more than the standard hot code swapping and live object (but not code) manipulation?
  - vanderZwan 12y ago
    If you're familiar with Smalltalk, skip the first twenty minutes of that first video I shared and then stick around for at least fifteen minutes, that's where the customizable views are explained. I think that answers your question - although I don't know how innovative this if you take into account all the alternative UI's that failed. However, the way it is being implemented in Pharo really appeals to me, and I can see it really work well in this "visual debugging seeing room environment thingy" Bret Victor wants us to aim for.

by jkscm 12y ago

vanderZwan 12y ago

The Pharo guys are working on that: https://vimeo.com/channels/ndc2014/97315968 https://vimeo.com/channels/ndc2014/97315968 Starts slow, but gets really interesting (disclaimer: I'm a biased interaction designer in this regard, I love this stuff) halfway in. Pharo might actually become a very good fit for Victor's idea of a big-screen "seeing room" debugging environment, now that I think of it - combine it with some of Victor's idea of drawing dynamic visualisations[1] it would probably be a great environment for creating tools on the fly, and the "everything is an object" model is fitting for the tinkering-mentality of the maker space. [1] https://vimeo.com/66085662 https://vimeo.com/66085662

seanmcdirmid 12y ago
Does Pharo support anything more than the standard hot code swapping and live object (but not code) manipulation?
- vanderZwan 12y ago
  If you're familiar with Smalltalk, skip the first twenty minutes of that first video I shared and then stick around for at least fifteen minutes, that's where the customizable views are explained. I think that answers your question - although I don't know how innovative this if you take into account all the alternative UI's that failed. However, the way it is being implemented in Pharo really appeals to me, and I can see it really work well in this "visual debugging seeing room environment thingy" Bret Victor wants us to aim for.