Our work heeds calls from HCI scholars for more historicism in the field, to better contextualize technology "within dynamic temporal processes of emergence, change, continuity, decline, disappearance, or revival," and to see "the past... as a repository of design knowledge and experience"

From our analysis, we derive a set of initial implications for the design of future systems that create new abstractions (Section 5), including that notations primarily originate through linking metaphors and most often in a social—rather than a technical—context, and that notation design decisions around what to include as "meaningful" (and thus what to exclude) are often left implicit by inventors, but