End-User Programming

Who needs it?

and…

Why?

Build simulations Be able to express and communicate

complex ideas Education

History Math Music Geology Logic Programming Art

AgentSheets is an authoring tool allowing end-users to build their

own interactive simulations and publish

them on the Web

The Grape Boycott

EcoWorldsElementary school kids design their own animals, share them through the web and explore the sustainability of the resulting EcoWorlds

“I will eat you”

“If I lower my reproduction rate this world will become more stable”

AgentSheets in India

When the Jiva-Java Project started, its 20 secondary students had never used a mouse or seen the Web. Three weeks later, they had created applets (using Agentsheets authorware) and linked them to their own Web pages

–Ed Gaible at the Jiva Institute Faridabad, Haryana , India

LEGOSheets

LEGOSheets in Action

Out of this World(very distance education)

Out of this World(very distance education)

NASA used AgentSheets to simulate an “E.coli in microgravity” experiment aboard the space shuttle Discovery with John Glenn

Use End-User Programmable Agents to Bridge the Gap between Existing and Relevant

Informationon the Web

The Syntactic

Web

The Semantic

Web

The Pragmatic

Web

The Pragmatic Web

Boulder Live

The browserless

agent-based

Web

Why?

Make information accessible to disabled, e.g., blind or motor skill challenged

Have agents access information user controlled, e.g. voice commands, or autonomously

Have agents synthesize new information Create information processing ecologies:

make agents sharable goods (email, Web). Access information on small wireless devices

including PDAs and cell phones

AgentSheets®

Amplify your Thoughts

Some credentials

NAS: Exemplary Information Technology for Education

WWW5: “Most Creative Educational Application of the World Wide Web”

– Major of Paris

NSF: ~$8 million funding

ACM1: “Best of the Best Innovator”

European Commission: advisor to new End-User Computing initiative

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