<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at">e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi Sascha,<br> <br> the best work in this context that I've seen so far is Sven Bergman's<br> master thesis: "Sugar - Not necessarily unhealthy":<br> <a href="http://dimeb.informatik.uni-bremen.de/documents/Sugar-Not_necessarily_unhealthy.pdf" target="_blank">http://dimeb.informatik.uni-bremen.de/documents/Sugar-Not_necessarily_unhealthy.pdf</a><br> <br> By the way, what is the focus of your thesis? I've recently restarted a<br> dormant thesis project myself and would of course love to avoid too<br> much overlap (esp. since Sven's thesis is basically *exactly* what I<br> had planned to do;-).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>thanks for this christoph, interesting</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <br> Cheers,<br> Christoph<br> <br> Zitat von Sascha Silbe <<a href="mailto:sascha-ml-ui-sugar-iaep@silbe.org">sascha-ml-ui-sugar-iaep@silbe.org</a>>:<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> > Hi!<br> ><br> > Sorry for the slightly OT post, but I'm having a hard time finding<br> > relevant papers for my diploma thesis.<br> ><br> > I'm looking for papers<br> > a) describing the Sugar Learning Platform (high-level overview, ideas<br> > behind it) and<br> > b) that describe ideas used when designing Sugar (e.g. other<br> > experimental UIs), i.e. that formed the basis of the Sugar HIGs.<br> > c) anything else that had an influence on the UI design of Sugar.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have compiled an annotated reference list of alan kay papers many of them related to UI design issues and presenting original and valuable ideas about that</div> <div><a href="http://learningevolves.wikispaces.com/alanKay+talk">http://learningevolves.wikispaces.com/alanKay+talk</a></div><div><br></div><div>I found John Maxwell's PhD and alan kay's paper "an early history of smalltalk" to be the most valuable</div> <div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="h5"> ><br> ><br> > What I've found:<br> > - Carlos' thesis is the best match so far, but it focusses on what<br> > Sugar looks like, not the ideas behind it<br> > - some early articles about OLPC but they're more about laptops in<br> > education than about Sugar<br> ><br> ><br> > I'd appreciate any pointer in the right direction.<br> ><br> ><br> > CU Sascha<br> ><br> > --<br> > <a href="http://sascha.silbe.org/" target="_blank">http://sascha.silbe.org/</a><br> > <a href="http://www.infra-silbe.de/" target="_blank">http://www.infra-silbe.de/</a><br> <br> <br> <br> </div></div><font color="#888888">--<br> Christoph Derndorfer<br> co-editor, olpcnews<br> url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com" target="_blank">www.olpcnews.com</a><br> e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> _______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>