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3. Lewis, Jason E. and Alex Weyers, "ActiveText: A Method for Creating Dynamic and Interctive Texts," UIST 99 Conference Proceedings (1994).ActiveText: A Method for Creating Dynamic and Interctive Texts This paper describes ActiveText, a method for creating dynamic and interactive texts. ActiveText uses an object-based hierarchy to represent texts. This hierarchy makes it easy to work with the ASCII component and pixel component of the text at the same time. Static, dynamic and interactive properties of text can be easily intermixed and layered. The user can enter and edit text, adjust static and dynamic layout, apply dynamic and interactive behaviors, and adjust their parameters with a common set of tools and a common interface. Support for continuous editing allows the user to sketch dynamically. A prototype application called It's Alive! has been implemented to explore the ActiveText functionality. The documents produced by It's Alive! can be of use in a wide-range of areas, including chat-spaces, email, web-sites, fiction and poetry writing, and low-end film & video titling. Lewis, Jason E. "Dynamic Poetry: Introductory Remarks to a Digital Medium," Thesis for Masters of Philosophy (Design), Computer Related Design, Royal College of Art (1996).Dynamic Poetry: Introductory Remarks to a Digital Medium This thesis investigates the processes by which media evolve in order to suggest future directions for the digital medium. It develops the notion of content-lag to describe the time-span between the introduction of a medium and the point at which it is used to produce artifacts which exploit the affordances particular to that medium to their fullest. Current difficulties in developing strong content in the digital medium are discussed in terms of content-lag. The thesis then argues that a more considered approach to interactivity will assist in decreasing content-lag in the digital medium. A framework is proposed for rediscovering the ways in which interactivity is deployed in the digital medium. The arguments of the thesis are embodied in project work which explores the possibilities of a computer-based poetic genre. This project work exists as a collection dynamic poems, which are available for interaction on a companion CD-ROM. text organ text organ Jason E. Lewis Alex Weyers External Related Works