9.5.1 As a co-pi on the development of the Information personae software architecture, Robert Nideffer has been focused on developing multi views of documents and has been conceptualising a beta-project named PROXY.

9.5.2 PROXY is a networked social environment exploring issues of agents and agency. PROXY utilises multiple interfaces to shared information spaces: ASCII, HTML, and a stand-alone Java-based Mobile Agent Management (MAM) system known as the Information Personae (IP). Each of these interfaces are integrated and interact with each other in a variety of ways. For example, within PROXY the IP agent, which among other things can query, retrieve, and display distributed data, can also telnet into a text-based virtual environment built on top of MOO and write out its data structure, which can then be traversed via ASCII, HTML, or integrated ASCII/HTML, modified remotely, and used to regenerate the IP agent's data structure. [3]

9.5.3 A primary goal of PROXY is to actively explore various kinds of agent/agent, agent/human, and human/human interaction through the deployment of a series of projects using the IP agent. These projects include: "Strategic Interests," "Faculty Subjects," and "Celebrity Profiles." [top]