{"title":"Visual specification of 3D notations using 3DComposer","authors":"Vincent Chung, J. Hosking, W. Mugridge","doi":"10.1109/VL.1999.795900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VL.1999.795900","url":null,"abstract":"3DComposer is a tool for specifying and generating three dimensional visual notations.","PeriodicalId":113128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1999 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124515070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the scrollbar: an evolution and evaluation of alternative navigation techniques","authors":"D. McCrickard, R. Catrambone","doi":"10.1109/VL.1999.795913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VL.1999.795913","url":null,"abstract":"Scrollbars provide a simple way to traverse an information space, but they provide little data about the actual contents of the space. Of the many visualization techniques that have been proposed, few have maintained the simple functionality of the scrollbar while showing improved performance on typical scrollbar tasks. This paper presents two enhancements to the scrollbar, a mural bar and a pile bar, which encode data about the information space contents into the trough of the bar. Results from an experiment suggest that these new devices lead to improved user performance on several common scrollbar tasks.","PeriodicalId":113128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1999 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126731695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ISI visual design editor generator","authors":"N. Goldman, R. Balzer","doi":"10.1109/VL.1999.795871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VL.1999.795871","url":null,"abstract":"The benefits of \"domain specific\" languages and development environments are widely recognized. Constructing an environment for a new domain, however, remains a costly activity, requiring expertise in several areas of software development as well as in the targeted domain. The ISI design editor generator and design environment comprises novel infrastructure that simplifies this task, producing visual domain-specific design environments. This paper presents the runtime architecture of these environments, a visual \"specify-by-example\" capability that deals with a major portion of editor generation, and an implementation that uses a COTS product (Microsoft PowerPoint) as both graphic middleware and end-user GUI.","PeriodicalId":113128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1999 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130146459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"3D-PP\": three-dimensional visual programming system","authors":"T. Oshiba, J. Tanaka","doi":"10.1109/VL.1999.795896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VL.1999.795896","url":null,"abstract":"We are interested in three-dimensional visual programming environments in particular. The conventional visual programming systems mainly focuses on two-dimensional pictorial programming. A big problem is that two-dimensional visual programming systems fail to manage a lot of pictorial programming elements. This paper proposes a new pragmatic three-dimensional visual programming system \"3D-PP\" to solve the problem.","PeriodicalId":113128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1999 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132161754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HotFlow - a visual language for workflow applications in E-Commerce","authors":"D. Handl","doi":"10.1109/VL.1999.795894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VL.1999.795894","url":null,"abstract":"HotFlow is a visual language for controlling the dynamic workflow of negotiating and contracting, enabling users with minor knowledge in information technology to visually define and modify a workflow even at run-time, with simple drag-and-drop actions. It has been architectured within the scope of MALL2000, a project on business-to-business Electronic Commerce.","PeriodicalId":113128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1999 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130853540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual reflection: language, action and feedback","authors":"L. Carriço, P. Antunes, N. Guimarães","doi":"10.1109/VL.1999.795893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VL.1999.795893","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the direct manipulation of cognitive maps. It describes its components and manipulation and proposes an object model that defines the properties relevant to build elaborated feedback. It also presents a metaphor based feedback dialect that is able to communicate the complex constraints of cognitive maps.","PeriodicalId":113128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1999 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130912500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mazes and morphs: modeling meaning in Glide, a non-linear, dynamic visual language","authors":"D. Slattery, W. Brubaker, Daniela K. O’Neil","doi":"10.1109/VL.1999.795880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VL.1999.795880","url":null,"abstract":"Glide is a system of visual signs, an artist's exploration of the possibilities of meaning-making in the age of ubiquitous computing. Glide was originally constructed as an artifact in a work of speculative fiction of the same name. Examining the language, both from within the narrative and from a theoretical stance outside the narrative world, has led the artist into a kaleidoscopic maze of suggestive possibilities of the expressive qualities of visual language. New dimensions of meaning are enabled by the non-linear and dynamic representational modes of computer graphics and animation. The semantic potentials of the 27 core Glide glyphs increases exponentially by varying color, size, orientation and type of linking. When linguistic units, inscribed in light, are freed from the static, the linear and the 2D, then meaning construction and interpretation are revealed as dynamic and interactive processes.","PeriodicalId":113128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1999 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115551341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leaving the visual language ghetto","authors":"M. Munch, A. Schurr","doi":"10.1109/VL.1999.795886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VL.1999.795886","url":null,"abstract":"Visual languages (VLs)-invented outside the visual programming language (VPL) community-are quite successfully used around the world. There are, for example, international VL standards used in the telecommunication, software engineering and automatic control engineering industries, but alas, most of these language standards were defined without knowing the VL definition and design principles developed by the VPL community. This paper suggests a procedure for employing our knowledge about VLs to develop incremental improvements for widely accepted visual modeling/programming language standards. It starts with a survey of component-based VLs and ends with some proposals about how to to incorporate modeling-in-the-large concepts into the IEC-1131 standard for function block languages.","PeriodicalId":113128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1999 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128658365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}