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Jerome B. Wiesner: A Random Walk through the Twentieth Century |
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Davenport G |
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November 1996 |
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Advertising Sheet |
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Abstract |
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| "Jerome B. Wiesner: A Random Walk through the Twentieth Century" is a storytelling system implemented on the World Wide Web. The system guides the viewer through a collection of video clips and text documents; through their interaction, the viewer constructs a contextual understanding of Jerry Wiesner and events of the Twentieth Century.
The interfacce seeks to constantly situate a particular story or document in the context of the rest. As opposed to a conventional chronological telling of history, the system suggests ways to move to related materials connected by person, theme, or period of time... |
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http://mf.media.mit.edu/pubs/other/JBWad.pdf |
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