Experiments with Oval

1 April 1995

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Vol. 13 (2) , 177-205
https://doi.org/10.1145/201040.201047

Abstract

This article describes a series of tests of the generality of a “radically tailorable” tool for cooperative work. Users of this system can create applications by combining and modifying four kinds of building blocks: objects, views, agents, and links . We found that user-level tailoring of these primitives can provide most of the functionality found in well-known cooperative work systems such as gIBIS, Coordinator, Lotus Notes, and Information Lens. These primitives, therefore, appear to provide an elementary “tailoring language” out of which a wide variety of integrated information management and collaboration applications can be constructed by end users.

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