Bill Clancey
Bill Clancey
automated designed developing direct experience fit people perspective provides setting software systems total
A total systems perspective - developing our software in a setting analogous to where it will be used - provides direct experience and new insights about how people and automated systems can be designed to fit together.
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By using the systems we are developing in the habitat, we are both testing our ideas and validating our assumptions about what kinds of tools people really need.
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Because of the nature of a test, you're doing everything for the first time. And you realize that there is always something nobody's ever thought of.
computing critical obvious wireless
We think that it's as critical and obvious as the idea of having wireless computing in the field.
batteries experiment help inside living manage power provide software
We will experiment with sensors and software that will help us manage a generator and batteries that provide power to a habitat, while we are living and working inside (of it).
system
I do want a system that's much more sophisticated.