June 2013

Directions for lab and work

by Bret Victor

The first attempt to articulate the goals and yearnings which ultimately led to Realtalk and Dynamicland.

Hi Alan, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "how I would set up the lab"...

Before the lab was formed, the urges and yearnings behind the research agenda could be seen in primordial form on Bret's website.

The desire for a new medium is expressed in Media for Thinking the Unthinkable.

The desire for context is expressed in Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction.

The desire for physicality is expressed in A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design.

The first articulation of a research agenda was in an email to Alan Kay. Directions for lab and work (2013)

As the lab was being designed, this evolved into Research Agenda + Floor Plan (2013).

The "final" version is a poster. Research agenda (2014)

It was felt that the poster was not yet suitable for publishing, but the second half of Bret's talk, The Humane Representation of Thought (2014), closely follows the research agenda.

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