Rosemary Michelle Simpson
Augmented Reality - Visions and Tools
This is an exploratorium for examining, playing with, testing, challenging, and molding new ideas and tools for extending our mind-body systems, both in self-referential modes and in collaborative modes. Initially, I include just a link to my future fantasy, but as my new system - ConceptLab - takes shape will include versions of it as well.
Background
Rosemary Michelle Simpson received a BA in history from the University of Massachusetts. She taught high school chemistry and was the recipient of an NSF science teachers grant for chemistry. In 1967 she joined IBM as a systems engineer (Cambridge MA GEM office). Since then she's been a systems programmer (CP-67/CMS development group - the forerunner of VM/370), teacher (DecSystem-10 operating system internals), technical writer (Prime Computer system architecture), Lisp programmer (LMI, where she created the Gateway hypertext system), and for the last twelve years has been a professional indexer and an information structures designer.
Currently she is resources coordinator and Design Strategies Handbook editor for the Exploratories project, webmaster for several graphics and hypertext web sites, and is implementing, in Squeak, the first prototype for ConceptLab. ConceptLab is a spatial hypermedia environment that provides facilities for exploring and extending a cognitive domain, for generating new ideas relative to that domain, and for modifying the domain to reflect the impact of the new ideas. It enables users to discover relationships among concepts that they would not have otherwise discovered using currently available tools such as search engines (Google, Altavista, etc) and citationbases (CiteSeer).
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