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Commentary on “Domain-oriented design environments” by Gerhard Fischer

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Gerhard's vision of domain-oriented design environments, initially “seeded” by a special startup effort but from then on “living and growing” through interaction in a work environment is a compelling one. His positioning of this idea as complementary to more traditional approaches like KBSA (which, by the way, are beginning to embrace many of the ideas he espouses) is correct. Furthermore, I agree with this vision and with much of his work in supporting human-centered design. However, as he himself admits, it remains to be tested in the real world and such tests will force the vision, the technology, and the way people work to evolve in mutually supportive way.

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Selfridge, P.G. Commentary on “Domain-oriented design environments” by Gerhard Fischer. Autom Software Eng 1, 219–222 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00872293

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