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SUMMARY:Interacting with Alternatives 
DTSTART:20141029T110000
DTEND:20141029T120000
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DESCRIPTION:Robert Woodbury\, Professor\, School of Interactive Arts and 
 Technology\, Simon Fraser University\, Surrey\, BC\, Canada\nIt is beyond
  reasonable dispute that a central (if not the central) act of designing i
 s to explore in a space of possibilities. Some call it search\, some explo
 ration or even sketching\, but it is at the core. Designers explore altern
 atives on their way to a design that satisfies them. Along the way\, even 
 the notion of what will satisfy a situation can change. The iconic sketchb
 ook\, in pencil (or ink) remains the principal tool for exploration. In st
 ark contrast\, current computer aided design (CAD) tools provide little ex
 ploration support (though this is growing) especially in the academic lite
 rature. CAD provides relentless single-state systems that bias strongly to
  working with one model at a time\, clever workarounds such as using layer
 s for alternatives notwithstanding. Clearly we need a new way to interact 
 with alternatives. We need tools for multiple alternatives\, rapid sketchi
 ng and exploration over multiple visible\, editable alternatives. We have 
 built several such tools\, CAMBRIA (after the Cambrian explosion of life)\
 ; GEM-NI (Generative Many-Nodes Interpreter)\, Alt. Text (Alternatives in 
 Text) and a language to support alternatives\, which we call SHIRO (after 
 spreading mycelium). In this talk I present design arguments for working w
 ith alternatives and show how to implement some of these ideas.
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