Object lens: a “spreadsheet” for cooperative work Export

@article{citeulike:4446522, abstract = {Object Lens allows unsophisticated computer users to create their own cooperative work applications using a set of simple, but powerful, building blocks. By defining and modifying templates for various semistructured objects, users can represent information about people, tasks, products, messages, and many other kinds of information in a form that can be processed intelligently by both people and their computers. By collecting these objects in customizable folders, users can create their own displays which summarize selected information from the objects in table or tree formats. Finally, by creating semiautonomous agents, users can specify rules for automatically processing this information in different ways at different times. The combination of these primitives provides a single consistent interface that integrates facilities for object-oriented databases, hypertext, electronic messaging, and rule-based intelligent agents. To illustrate the power of this combined approach, we describe several simple examples of applications (such as task tracking, intelligent message routing, and database retrieval) that we have developed in this framework.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Lai, Kum Y. and Malone, Thomas W. and Yu, Keh C.}, citeulike-article-id = {4446522}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=59298}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/58566.59298}, doi = {10.1145/58566.59298}, issn = {1046-8188}, journal = {ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.}, number = {4}, pages = {332--353}, posted-at = {2009-05-01 00:05:26}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Object lens: a ``spreadsheet'' for cooperative work}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/58566.59298}, volume = {6}, year = {1988} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4446522 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4446522 N2 - Object Lens allows unsophisticated computer users to create their own cooperative work applications using a set of simple, but powerful, building blocks. By defining and modifying templates for various semistructured objects, users can represent information about people, tasks, products, messages, and many other kinds of information in a form that can be processed intelligently by both people and their computers. By collecting these objects in customizable folders, users can create their own displays which summarize selected information from the objects in table or tree formats. Finally, by creating semiautonomous agents, users can specify rules for automatically processing this information in different ways at different times. The combination of these primitives provides a single consistent interface that integrates facilities for object-oriented databases, hypertext, electronic messaging, and rule-based intelligent agents. To illustrate the power of this combined approach, we describe several simple examples of applications (such as task tracking, intelligent message routing, and database retrieval) that we have developed in this framework. IS - 4 JF - ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. SN - 1046-8188 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 353 TI - Object lens: a ``spreadsheet'' for cooperative work PB - ACM VL - 6 SP - 332 AU - Lai, Kum AU - Malone, Thomas AU - Yu, Keh PY - 1988/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/58566.59298 ER -