Looking ahead

In the rest of this thesis, we will cover all of the aforementioned topics in greater detail as well as other relevant issues. The outline is as follows:

• Chapter 2 demonstrates a particular INDIE application, Volcano Investigator, and discusses what makes up an INDIE project.

• Chapter 3 discusses what the INDIE tool provides when building projects and then pinpoints the goals of INDIE and how to measure if INDIE met those goals.

• Chapter 4 examines our various approaches to authoring basic interactions in INDIE, from our model-oriented attempt in INDIE 1.0 to our more flexible, GUI-based approach in INDIE 2.0.

• Chapter 5 shows how to build more complex, conditional interactions in INDIE, focusing on the experiment model and the critiquer.

• Chapter 6 talks about the authors' experiences with their projects, with analyses of specific problems authors had with INDIE 2.0 and why they had them.

• Chapter 7 investigates other systems that are similar to INDIE in structure and/or mission.

• Chapter 8 draws overall conclusions about INDIE and discusses future work.