Visual language for non-WIMP user interfaces.
Jacob, Robert J. K.
1996
- Unlike current GUI or WIMP style interfaces, non-WIMP user interfaces, such as virtual environments, involve parallel, continuous interactions with the user. However, most current visual (and non-visual) languages for describing human-computer interaction are based on serial, discrete, token-based models. The paper introduces a visual language for describing and programming the fine-grained aspects ... read moreof non-WIMP interaction. It is based on the notion that the essence of a non-WIMP dialogue is a set of continuous relationships, most of which are temporary. The underlying model combines a data-flow or constraint-like component for the continuous relationships with an event-based component for discrete interactions, which can enable or disable individual continuous relationships. The language thus separates non-WIMP interaction into two components, each based on existing visual language approaches, and then provides a framework for connecting the two. © 1996 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.read less
- Jacob, R.J.K. "A Visual Language for Non-WIMP User Interfaces." Proceedings 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (1996). doi:10.1109/vl.1996.545292.
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