People-Oriented Programming: From Agent-Oriented Analysis to the Design of Interactive Systems

Where the Object-Oriented paradigm set about abstracting objects, iented (AO) theory draws on Psychology to abstract mentalist notions like: beliefs, perceptions, goals, and intentions. As such, the associated AgentOriented analysis can be used quite successfully to design interactive systems for people, delivering applications that are heavily individual-oriented. This reversal of the AO lens focuses analysis back upon people. It puts a multifaceted agent used in analysis `into the shoes' of the user and turns the design and implementation into one we call People-Oriented Programming (POP). POP calls on users to gather ethnographic data about themselves using Cultural Probes and on end-user innovation via software toolkits. This turn of focus is timely as the analyst/designer of interactive systems is facing new challenges regarding flexibility, user situatedness, dynamic environments, incomplete data, diversity in user needs, sensors in the environment, and users emersed in mult...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: HCI
• Authors: Steve Goschnick
• Keywords: Analysis, Extensive Background Analysis, HCI 2009, Human Computer Interaction, Interactive Systems