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User Experience - in its various guises - has been my passion since I first joined the digital interactive design profession.

Here are some conference presentations from those at early days (1981-1989):

• Presentation Standards
• The Elemental Database
• Interactive Architecture
• Applications Protocol
• Usability Standards

I was one of the first students to graduate with a Masters Degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Spring of 1981.

Here's a collection of my course papers , demonstrating an often-naive, occasionally-perceptive view of The Interactive Future from the perspective of that era (1979-1981).

• The Frame Game
• Language Barriers

Software

Dreamware

Channel 84 Notes

By the early 70's cable TV systems were becoming common throughout the country. As an outspoken community advocate, I was selected by the local Community Cable TV Advisory Board and Somerville Mayor's office to head up one of the first community-run and operated cable TV stations in the United States.

Here are some of my notes as Director of Municipal Cable Channel 84 in Massachussetts (1975-77).