{"title":"The GRClass visual programming system","authors":"Greg Rogers","doi":"10.1109/WVL.1990.128381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WVL.1990.128381","url":null,"abstract":"The GRClass system, which combines graphics, relations, and classes to provide a visual interface for programming graph data structures within an object-oriented framework, is discussed. This is done by extending the object-oriented model with interobject relations. These relations are then used to directly implement the conceptual model of the graph data structures. Within the GRClass framework, data structures are objects that maintain relation tables. These relations and the objects participating in the relations constitute the form of the data structure. A graphical notation is used to specify the possible relations and to manipulate the relation graph. GRClass is implemented within the Andrew Toolkit programming environment.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256667,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123982840","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":"Cognition, models and metaphors","authors":"S. Levialdi","doi":"10.1109/WVL.1990.128385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WVL.1990.128385","url":null,"abstract":"The author reviews, discusses, and contrasts different scientific attitudes on the nature of cooperative interaction between man and computer, with particular reference to the use of metaphors for enhancing and improving such interaction. Critical issues in cognitive engineering are discussed. Model formation is discussed. The use of iconic metaphors in programming is discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256667,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128088028","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":"A graphical query language for object-oriented data models","authors":"Richard G. Epstein","doi":"10.1109/WVL.1990.128379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WVL.1990.128379","url":null,"abstract":"A graphical, functional query language, called Tabletalk, which can be used for a variety of object-oriented data models is described. Tabletalk expresses queries as mosaics, where spatial juxtaposition encodes the application of the functional combinators. Tabletalk is presented as a user-oriented and generic interface for object-oriented data models.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256667,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127355131","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":"Browsing in geographic databases: an object-oriented approach","authors":"E. Clementini, A. D'Atri, P. D. Felice","doi":"10.1109/WVL.1990.128393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WVL.1990.128393","url":null,"abstract":"An interaction model for object-oriented geographic databases is presented. A browsing technique based on the model is outlined. The approach is uniform for navigating both the intensional and extensional part of the database. The proposed interaction model is flexible and is suitable for satisfying many purposes. It is able to satisfy users interested in getting a general idea about the contents of the database, as well as those with more specific tasks to accomplish. Depending on their requirements, users may control the degree of complexity of the information presented on the screen. Two basic criteria are adopted for browsing the database: logic adjacency and spatial adjacency between objects. Logic adjacency is determined by four conceptual links, while spatial adjacency is related to the two-dimensional (map-based) view of geographic entities.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256667,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133091054","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":"Complete visualizations of concurrent programs and their executions","authors":"K. Kahn, V. Saraswat","doi":"10.1109/WVL.1990.128375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WVL.1990.128375","url":null,"abstract":"The theory and methods for a completely visual formalism for programs and their executions are presented. The appearance, and not the construction, completely describes programs, data, and states of execution. Programs, their model of execution, and their execution traces are visualized in the same pictorial terms. A list of advantages of this visual formalism is given. A case study using the Janus language is presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256667,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115003471","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}
P. Mussio, M. Pietrogrande, M. Protti, F. Colombo, Maria Finadri, Pietro Gentini
{"title":"Visual programming in a visual environment for liver simulation studies","authors":"P. Mussio, M. Pietrogrande, M. Protti, F. Colombo, Maria Finadri, Pietro Gentini","doi":"10.1109/WVL.1990.128378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WVL.1990.128378","url":null,"abstract":"The interactive system for hepatologist experimentation (ISHeE) is a visual explorative environment designed to allow a community of hepatologists to formalize, check, validate, and discuss their pathology and physiology liver models. In this environment the programming of simulation experiments is achieved by the use of visual languages. The use of conditional attributed rewriting systems is extended to the visual language definition, and the case of a visual language for programming the simulation of a population of hepatic cells is studied. How such a visual language allows the construction of programs which are expressed by the combination of graphical symbols which are familiar to the physician or which schematize shapes familiar to the physician and resemble the simulated system observed in the experiments is discussed. It is shown how a visual approach avoids the request of unnecessary precision during the interaction, leaving the user to focus on the solution of the problem.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256667,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130319096","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":"Towards a visual query language for an object oriented geographical information system","authors":"E. Jungert","doi":"10.1109/WVL.1990.128394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WVL.1990.128394","url":null,"abstract":"A query language designed for a geographical information system is described and discussed. The basic map data structure is objected-oriented, homogeneous, and raster-based. Because of the homogeneous map data structure, queries can be applied in a more or less generic way; that is, queries can be applied to all map data structures regardless of their type. The query language design is based on a visual interaction technique that gives a simpler structure compared to conventional query languages. The various types of queries are discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256667,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123317120","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":"Simplifying algorithm animation with Tango","authors":"J. Stasko","doi":"10.1109/WVL.1990.128374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WVL.1990.128374","url":null,"abstract":"A conceptual framework for algorithm animation to modularize and simplify the animation design process is presented. The framework introduces the path-transition paradigm, a model consisting of abstract data types appropriate to create smooth, continuous image movement. An animation design language specifically intended to simplify the task of producing animations is introduced. The path-transition paradigm is composed of location, image, path, and transition data types. An algorithm animation system called transition-based animation generation (Tango) which is based on the framework is developed. Tango supports color, two-dimensional animation views within a workstation-based windowing system.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256667,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122995865","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":"Creating graphical interfaces through graphical interaction","authors":"Gurminder Singh, Chun Hong Kok, Teng Ye Ngan","doi":"10.1109/WVL.1990.128404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WVL.1990.128404","url":null,"abstract":"The Demonstrational Rapid User Interface Development (DRUID) user interface management system (UIMS), which aims to help user interface designers create interactive, graphical direct-manipulation user interfaces through graphical interaction, is described. In DRUID, the designer creates the layout of the interface using interactive graphical facilities and demonstrates to the UIMS, through graphical interaction, how the end-user might interact with the interface. From this demonstration, DRUID determines the details of the interface and automatically produces an implementation of it. An example of how DRUID is used to create user interfaces is given.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256667,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114795015","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":"A visual language for image processing","authors":"C. Williams, J. Rasure","doi":"10.1109/WVL.1990.128387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WVL.1990.128387","url":null,"abstract":"The visual language Contata is a simple, but powerful, programming environment for the KHOROS system. By providing a graphical interface to basic components in the form of block diagrams with which researchers in many fields are already familiar, Contata promotes experimentation and learning without the need for advanced programming skills. The syntax of the language is discussed. Language features such as control structures and hierarchy are discussed. An image processing library and interoperable data exchange format are discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":256667,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133680071","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}