From: Rex Hartson [hartson@vt.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 1:18 PM
To: Jeff Pierce
Cc: bowman@vt.edu; 3dui List; Rex Hartson
Subject: Re: notation for 3D interaction techniques

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Jeff Pierce wrote:
> 
> How many people do you know that actually use UAN?  Not counting the
> researchers who invented it, mind.  =)
Hello, all. I have more or less an eavesdropper to this thread and don't
disagree with much of what has been said, but thought I should respond to
this one point, sincce I am one of the researchers who "invented" the UAN
(ooops, shouldn't have copied me on this one:).

We haven't worked on the UAN for a long time here, but back when we were
working on it, we had over a hundred real developers using it at various
places in the world.  I still get feedback from real users out there,
including this one I got last week (name not used, to protect the
guilty/innocent):
"My team has been experimenting with UAN for a little while now on a very
large, internationalized software program, and we believe that it will
yield better communication among team members."

Just for what it's worth.  -Rex Hartson
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