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Engelbart, Douglas, C. (1984). Authorship Provisions In Augment. In Proceedings of the IEEE COMPCON (Spring 84). New York: IEEE Press, 465-472.
Abstract
AUGMENT is a text processing sytem marketed by Tymshare for a multiuser, network environment. In AUGMENT's frontend is a User Interface System that facilitates flexible evolution of command languages and provides optional command recognition features. Exceptionally fast and flexible control of interactive operations is enabled by concurrent action of mouse and optional one-handed chord keyset. Files are hierarchically structured, and textual adress expressions can flexibly specify any text entity in any file. The screen may be devided into arbitrary, rectangular windows, allowing cross-file editing between windows. Many options exist for controlling the "view" of a file's text in a window, e.g.: level clipping, paragraph truncation, and content filtering. Structural study and modification of on-line documents are especially facilitated. A Journal system and "Shared Screen Teleconferencing" support collaboration among authors and their colleagues. Graphic illustrations may be embedded in the same file
with text.
Introduction
AUGMENT was designed for augmenting human intellectual capabilities. It was targeted particularly toward the core work of professionals engaged in "tough knowledge work" --e.g., planning, analyzing, and designing in complex problem domains. And special attention was paid to augmenting gropu collaboration among workers pursuing common gosls.
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