---
title: "Large Human-Machine Information Spaces"
authors:
  - "Chuck Rieger"
  - "Richard J. Wood"
  - "Elizabeth Allen"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/188"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0188.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "985-990"
track: "Man-machine Interaction"
keywords:
---

# Large Human-Machine Information Spaces

Chuck Rieger, Richard J. Wood, Elizabeth Allen

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 985-990.

## Abstract

An I-SPACE is a large human-machine informHtion space, designed especially for environr,ent s where large amounts of aistributed information, and tools for using that information, must be interfaced to a vide variety of users in real time. The important characteristics of an I-SPACC: are that it presents a powerful, but uniform and simple interface to all users, that it permits users to synthesize information from diverse parts of the I-SPACE for simultaneous viewinc and manipulation v&a their screens, and that it accommoaates a cluttered desktop environment, where activities can be set asi' de \but kept up to date by real-time mechanisms , then later returned to. We describe the Goddard -SPACE, a prototype system for Goddard Space Flight Center, an archetype of organizations in need of an I-SPACE. This ISPACE is presently running on a VAX, and will soon incorp.ora te a lar~e mui tiprocessor to handle real-time schedul1ng and event-driven pattern matchers.