Alice: Lessons learned from building a 3D system for novices

Matthew Conway; Steve Audia; Tommy Burnette; Dennis Cosgrove; Kevin Christiansen; Rob Deline; Jim Durbin; Rich Gossweiler; Shuichi Koga; Chris Long; Beth Mallory; Steve Miale; Kristen Monkaitis; James Patten; Jeff Pierce; Joe Shochet; David Staack; Brian Steams; Richard Stoakley; Chris Sturgill; John Viega; Jeff White; George Williams; Randy Pausch

doi:10.1145/332040.332481

Alice: Lessons learned from building a 3D system for novices

Matthew Conway
, Steve Audia
, Tommy Burnette
, Dennis Cosgrove
, Kevin Christiansen
, Rob Deline
, Jim Durbin
, Rich Gossweiler
, Shuichi Koga
, Chris Long
, Beth Mallory
, Steve Miale
, Kristen Monkaitis
, James Patten
, Jeff Pierce
, Joe Shochet
, David Staack
, Brian Steams
, Richard Stoakley
, Chris Sturgill

John Viega, Jeff White, George Williams, Randy Pausch

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

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Abstract

We present lessons learned from developing Alice, a 3D graphics programming environment designed for undergraduates with no 3D graphics or programming experience. Alice is a Windows 95/NT tool for describing the time-based and interactive behavior of 3D objects, not a CAD tool for creating object geometry. Our observations and conclusions come from formal and informal observations of hundreds of users. Primary results include the use of LOGO- style egocentric coordinate systems, the use of arbitrary objects as lightweight coordinate systems, the launching of implicit threads of execution, extensive function overloading for a small set of commands, the careful choice of command names, and the ubiquitous use of animation and undo. Copyright ACM 2000.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'00
Pages	486-493
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/332040.332481
State	Published - 2000
Event	SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2000 - The Hague, Netherlands Duration: Apr 1 2000 → Apr 6 2000

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2000
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	The Hague
Period	04/1/00 → 04/6/00

Keywords

Animation authoring tools
Interactive 3D graphics

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Conway, M., Audia, S., Burnette, T., Cosgrove, D., Christiansen, K., Deline, R., Durbin, J., Gossweiler, R., Koga, S., Long, C., Mallory, B., Miale, S., Monkaitis, K., Patten, J., Pierce, J., Shochet, J., Staack, D., Steams, B., Stoakley, R., ... Pausch, R. (2000). Alice: Lessons learned from building a 3D system for novices. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'00 (pp. 486-493). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1145/332040.332481

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Conway, M, Audia, S, Burnette, T, Cosgrove, D, Christiansen, K, Deline, R, Durbin, J, Gossweiler, R, Koga, S, Long, C, Mallory, B, Miale, S, Monkaitis, K, Patten, J, Pierce, J, Shochet, J, Staack, D, Steams, B, Stoakley, R, Sturgill, C, Viega, J, White, J, Williams, G & Pausch, R 2000, Alice: Lessons learned from building a 3D system for novices. in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'00. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, pp. 486-493, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2000, The Hague, Netherlands, 04/1/00. https://doi.org/10.1145/332040.332481

Alice: Lessons learned from building a 3D system for novices. / Conway, Matthew; Audia, Steve; Burnette, Tommy et al.
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'00. 2000. p. 486-493 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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