• DocumentCode
    292013
  • Title

    How to make “complex” software customizable

  • Author

    Spohrer, James C. ; Cypher, Allen ; James, Arthur ; Kleiman, Ruben ; Ohmaye, Enio ; Smith, David C.

  • Author_Institution
    Adv. Technol. Group, Apple Comput. Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    2-5 Oct 1994
  • Firstpage
    1404
  • Abstract
    KidSim and Puppeteer are two authoring tools that allow non-programmers to create and customize interactive educational simulations. KidSim and Puppeteer illustrate the effectiveness of task specific authoring tools as an approach to making complex software that is customizable. In this paper, a brief description of these two task specific tools is provided, and then enabling technology for building task specific tools is discussed
  • Keywords
    authoring systems; computer aided instruction; digital simulation; KidSim; Puppeteer; authoring tools; customising; enabling technology; interactive educational simulations; task specific tools; Application software; Availability; Computational modeling; Computer languages; Computer simulation; Costs; Educational institutions; Marketing and sales; Natural languages; Software tools;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1994. Humans, Information and Technology., 1994 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Antonio, TX
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2129-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSMC.1994.400042
  • Filename
    400042