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- Wirth Systems4 shared
- Care and Cognition1 shared
- Formal Concept Analysis1 shared
Concepts (10)
- AffordancesGibson's ecological psychology concept: relationships between organism abilities and environmental features; central to research question.
- Ceres WorkstationHardware platform developed at ETH on which Oberon System was initially implemented; used NS 32-bit processors.
- Don NormanAuthor of 'The Design of Everyday Things' who developed usability theory based on affordances and introduced the term 'signifier'
- Oberon Programming LanguageHigh-level programming language designed specifically for the Oberon System with type extension and machine-independent abstraction.
- Daniel JacksonAuthor of the essay; computer scientist at MIT CSAIL studying conceptual design in software systems
- Modula-2Original language choice for Oberon implementation; deemed unsatisfactory due to lack of type extension facility.
- Conceptual Design
- J. J. GibsonPsychologist who coined the term 'affordance' to describe the relationship between objects and how they convey use
- Representation DesignThe aspect of design dealing with data structures, modules, and implementation.
- Software Concepts