Dynamic interpretations in translucent patches
Axel Kramer · 1996
Our goal is to empower individuals involved in design activities using the written medium, by amending it carefully with computational facilities. To preserve the fluidity and swiftness of design activities, we let users dynamically associate marks on the display surface with interpretations that provide interesting operations to the user.Inherent to typical computer applications is a very static relationship between internal data structures and presentation. In contrast, applications in our system (we call them interpretations), have to be able to deal with a much more dynamic relationship between those areas.This paper motivates this idea, presents challenges faced by such an approach, explains a framework for designing and implementing such interpretations, and illustrates how exemplary interpretations make use of this framework.