Olympic Message System
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Olympic Message System - overview
User Experience Accomplishment | 1984
IBM researchers: John D. Gould, Stephen J. Boies, Stephen Levy, John T. Richards, Jim Schoonard
Where the work was done: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
What we accomplished: A voice communications messaging system for self-selected groups that featured a novel message notification system based on an early object-oriented language from IBM Research. It supported blended synchronous and asychronous messages and had a methodology for soliciting user needs.
Related links: The 1984 Olympic Message System: A Test of Behavioral Principles of System Design, in Communications of the ACM, September 1987; Video presentation
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