A system for interactive graphical programming

Newman, William M.

doi:10.1145/1468075.1468083

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“…In [22], W. Newman has proposed new interactive graphical programming language. The proposed language was graphical problem oriented language.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relating Interactive System Design and Information Theory from Information Leakage Perspective

Anjaria¹,

Mishra²

2017

IJEM

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In contemporary interactive software system design, to maintain equilibrium between usability and security is a challenging task because strictly enforced security policies directly affect the usability of the software. As a solution to this problem, information theoretic measure of information leakage in interactive system design has been proposed in the present work. The present paper first models the software system as a coloured Petri net model and after that using information theory and Petri net algebra; it defines the leakage in the interacting system. Based on the leakage definition, the present paper further quantifies information leakage and tries to establish a relation between information leakage and interactive system design principles. The paper also hints to decide consensus on the equilibrium of security and usability.

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“…In [22], W. Newman has proposed new interactive graphical programming language. The proposed language was graphical problem oriented language.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relating Interactive System Design and Information Theory from Information Leakage Perspective

Anjaria¹,

Mishra²

2017

IJEM

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“…The choice of UIDL model and methods was a key ingredient in the design and implementation of the UIMS [Olsen 1992]. Many systems used techniques borrowed from formal languages or compilers for dialogue specification, for example: state transition diagrams and advanced state machine models [Newman 1968;Jacob 1986;Olsen 1984], and parsers for context-free grammars (e.g. [Olsen and Dempsey 1983]).…”

Section: User Interface Management Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

A specification paradigm for the design and implementation of tangible user interfaces

Shaer

Jacob

2009

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Tangible interaction shows promise to significantly enhance computer-mediated support for activities such as learning, problem solving, and design. However, tangible user interfaces are currently considered challenging to design and build. Designers and developers of these interfaces encounter several conceptual, methodological and technical difficulties. Among others, these challenges include: the lack of appropriate interaction abstractions, the shortcomings of current user interface software tools to address continuous and parallel interactions, as well as the excessive effort required to integrate novel input and output technologies. To address these challenges, we propose a specification paradigm for designing and implementing Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs), that enables TUI developers to specify the structure and behavior of a tangible user interface using high-level constructs, which abstract away implementation details. An important benefit of this approach, which is based on User Interface Description Language (UIDL) research, is that these specifications could be automatically or semi-automatically converted into concrete TUI implementations. In addition, such specifications could serve as a common ground for investigating both design and implementation concerns by TUI developers from different disciplines.Thus, the primary contribution of this paper is a high-level UIDL that provides developers, from different disciplines means for effectively specifying, discussing, and programming, a broad range of tangible user interfaces. There are three distinct elements to this contribution: a visual specification technique that is based on Statecharts and Petri Nets, an XML-compliant language that extends this visual specification technique, as well as a proof-of-concept prototype of a Tangible User Interface Management System (TUIMS) that semi-automatically translates high-level specifications into a program controlling specific target technologies.

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“…In addition to input tokens, calls to application procedures and the output to display can also be put on the arcs in some systems. Newman implemented a simple tool using finite state machines in 1968 [67] which handled textual input. This was apparently the first user interface tool.…”

Section: State Transition Networkmentioning

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User interface software tools

Myers

1995

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Almost as long as there have been user interfaces, there have been special software systems and tools to help design and implement the user interface software. Many of these tools have demonstrated significant productivity gains for programmers, and have become important commercial products. Others have proven less successful at supporting the kinds of user interfaces people want to build. This article discusses the different kinds of user interface software tools, and investigates why some approaches have worked and others have not. Many examples of commercial and research systems are included. Finally, current research directions and open issues in the field are discussed.

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A system for interactive graphical programming

Cited by 164 publications

References 5 publications

Relating Interactive System Design and Information Theory from Information Leakage Perspective

Relating Interactive System Design and Information Theory from Information Leakage Perspective

A specification paradigm for the design and implementation of tangible user interfaces

User interface software tools

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