> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Simon Holland via Esug-list <esug-l...@lists.esug.org> > Subject: [Esug-list] URGENT - Fully funded Research Internship for Smalltalk > programmer > Date: 24 January 2021 at 16:06:42 CET > To: esug-l...@lists.esug.org > Reply-To: Simon Holland <simonxholl...@icloud.com> > > URGENT – Fully funded five-month research internship available immediately in > the School of Computing and Communications at The Open University for > programmer. > > A fully funded place for a five-month Research Intern is immediately > available at the School of Computing at the Open University. Prospective > research interns could be excellent final year undergraduates, Masters > students, or PhD students, or could have recently completed any of these > awards. The post is available immediately, but in any case, you must be > available to start in February 2021. Due to covid restrictions, the intern > will be based remotely, with co-ordination online. > > The project involves the iterative design, construction and exploration of a > highly expressive Direct Combination system (although no previous knowledge > of Direct Combination is required). Direct Combination is a family of user > interaction techniques, and a user interaction framework. Recent developments > in Stateful Traits (Tesone et al., 2020) have provided tools for creating new > highly expressive Direct Combination systems. > > The Project will involve designing, implementing and evaluating a new direct > combination engine, and creating support tools as needed. You will be > strongly encouraged to contribute as co-author to one or more refereed > research publications. This research internship is available to start > immediately and will run for five months. You will be able to work remotely > for this whole period. > > Skills > Good Smalltalk programming skills are essential, ideally in Pharo. Good > written and oral English communication skills are essential. Willingness to > consider the end-user’s point of view is important. Various background > skills are not essential, but could be helpful, such as: knowledge of, or > interest in, software composition research and metaprogramming; good TDD > habits; acquaintance with stateful traits; acquaintance with the > Data-Context-Interaction paradigm; experience and skills with the Pharo > toolset, such as Roassal, the Glamorous Toolkit, and Iceberg. > > Applications should include a CV with contact details and covering note that > summarizes: > • evidence of appropriate knowledge, skills and experience, > • why you want to undertake this particular internship and why you would be a > good candidate, > • telephone, email and postal contact details for two referees, at least one > of whom must be able to comment on subject discipline specifics. > > For more information, or for informal enquiries, which are encouraged, > contact s.holland or o.howson (insert <at> here) open.ac.uk > <http://open.ac.uk/>. Applications should also be sent to this address, and > also copied to stem-cc-secretar...@open.ac.uk > <mailto:stem-cc-secretar...@open.ac.uk>. > > ——————————————————————————————————————— > > Further particulars > Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a highly expressive Direct > Combination Prototype > > Candidates are not required to know anything about Direct Combination (DC). > However, some optional background is provided for candidates who might wish > to know about the project’s aim and scope. > > Direct Combination is variously a principle, a family of user interaction > techniques, and a user interaction framework (Holland and Oppenheim, 1999; > Holland et al., 2002a). Together, these can give users greatly enhanced > flexibility interacting with digital systems and can reduce search when > dealing with complex or unfamiliar interfaces (Holland et al., 2005). > > Direct Combination also has potential to simplify multi-device interaction > (Holland et al., 2002), enhance bimanual interaction (Webb, 2017), facilitate > interactions spanning virtual and physical boundaries; encourage > serendipitous interaction (Holland et al., 2002b), and to enable the > incremental development of novel interactions by end-user programming > (Holland, 2003). While the potential of Direct Combination has been widely > noted (e.g. Beaudouin-Lafon and Mackay, 2000, Rekimoto, 2004, Bartoleo et al, > 2006 , Webb, 2017, Agarwal et al, 2019) existing implementations have been > constrained by the limitations of available mechanisms for the modelling of > separation of concerns in multi-dimensional domain models. > > However, new mechanisms that facilitate separation of concerns, in > particular the revised version of Stateful Traits (Tesone et al., 2020) have > created new opportunities for building highly expressive Direct Combination > engines. Reenaskaug’s Data-Context-Interaction Paradigm (Reenskaug, 2006; > James Coplien and Trygve Reenskaug, 2012) has also contributed relevant > insights. > > As well as prototyping the new DC engine, the project will prototype support > tools. To this end, the project will also involve analysing and creating > informal domain models for one or two end-user domains, anticipated to be an > AR/VR game in Unity (linked via a simple OSC bridge) and possibly an > interface to allow end users and music scholars to query, analyse and > visualise large quantities of linked music data on the web (via SPARQL). > > The choice of Smalltalk as preferred development environment reflects the > fact that three previous implementations of Direct Combination at the Open > University, and the reference implementations of both Stateful Traits and > DCI, were all developed in Smalltalk (variously in Squeak, VisualWorks and > Pharo). At the same time, the pervasively live-object nature of Smalltalk and > its sophisticated IDE, along with the powerful metaprogramming facilities, > offer substantial advantages in facilitating rapid prototyping and > exploration. > > References > > Agarwal, Mallika, Arjun Srinivasan, and John Stasko. (2019) "VisWall: Visual > Data Exploration Using Direct Combination on Large Touch Displays." 2019 IEEE > Visualization Conference (VIS). IEEE, 2019 > > Bartolomeo, G., BlefariMelazzi, N., Cortese, G., Friday, A., Prezerakos, G., > Walker, R. and Salsano, S., 2006, February. Sms: Simplifying mobile > services-for users and service providers. In Advanced Int'l Conference on > Telecommunications and Int'l Conference on Internet and Web Applications and > Services (AICT-ICIW'06) (pp. 209-209). IEEE. > > Beaudouin-Lafon, M. and Mackay, W.E., 2000, May. Reification, polymorphism > and reuse: three principles for designing visual interfaces. In Proceedings > of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces (pp. 102-109). > > James Coplien and Trygve Reenskaug (2012) The data, context and interaction > paradigm. In SPLASH '12: Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Systems, > programming, and applications: software for humanity. > > Gedenryd, H. (2002). Beyond Inheritance, Aspects and Roles: a Unified Scheme > for Object and Program Composition. TR2002/09, Department of Computing, The > Open University, Milton Keynes, MK76AA, UK. > > Holland, S. and Oppenheim, D. (1999) Direct Combination. Proceedings of CHI > 1999 pp. 262-269. > > Holland, S., Morse, D.R., Gedenryd, H. (2002a) Direct Combination: a New User > Interaction Principle for Mobile and Ubiquitous HCI. In Paterno, F., (Ed.) > (2002) Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices. Mobile HCI 2002. > > Holland, Simon; Gedenryd, Henrik and Morse, David (2002b). Applying Direct > Combination to afford spontaneity in Pervasive Computing. In: Workshop on > Supporting Spontaneous Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing Settings, 29 Sep - > 1 Oct 2002, Gothenburg, Sweden. > > Reenskaug, T. (2006) DCI Documentation > http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/themes/babyide/baby-documents.html > <http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/themes/babyide/baby-documents.html> > (Accessed 19 Dec 2020) > > Holland, Simon (2005). A first empirical study of direct combination in a > ubiquitous environment. In: Fincher, Sally; Markpoulos, Panos; Moore, David > and Ruddle, Roy eds. People and computers XVIII - Design for life: > proceedings of HCI 2004. London, UK: Springer, pp. 229–247. > > Holland, Simon (2003). Ambient Combination: Applying Direct Combination to > Afford Spontaneity in Pervasive Computing . > http://mcl.open.ac.uk/DC/uploads/Ambient%20Combination%20Long.pdf > <http://mcl.open.ac.uk/DC/uploads/Ambient%20Combination%20Long.pdf> (accessed > 10 Jan 2021) > > Rekimoto, J. (2004). SyncTap: synchronous user operation for spontaneous > network connection. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 8(2), 126-134. > > Pablo Tesone, Stéphane Ducasse, Guillermo Polito, Luc Fabresse, Noury > Bouraqadi (2020) A new modular implementation for stateful traits, Science of > Computer Programming, Volume 195, 102470, ISSN 0167-6423, > https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2020.102470 > <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2020.102470>. > > Webb, A.M., 2017. Phrasing Bimanual Interaction for Visual Design (Doctoral > dissertation). > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list > esug-l...@lists.esug.org > http://lists.esug.org/mailman/listinfo/esug-list_lists.esug.org
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