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Geoffrey Litt on end user software for cooking

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Geoffrey is doing a PhD at MIT on Human Computer Interaction and end user programming. He also does research projects with the independent R&D lab, Ink & Switch. He is working on helping more non-programmers build their own software tools.

We talked about:

  • Potluck, Geoffrey’s latest experimental tool that lets a user start with a meaningful document (like a recipe) and progressively enhance it with computation (like automatically adjusting timings).
  • Trade-offs between concrete use cases, building for others and giving research time to show results.
  • Orienting thoughts around end user programming around the context the user is in, rather than who they are.
  • The ways that different communities help foster research.

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    • Geoffrey on Twitter
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