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1999
IEEE
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ZASH: A Browsing System for Multi-Dimensional Data
This paper described a browsing system for movie database. The system, named ZASH, was designed and developed to explore the following features: (1) the use of multiple 2D planes ...
Emiko Orimo, Hideki Koike
VL
1999
IEEE
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Reasoning with Spider Diagrams
Spider diagrams combine and extend Venn diagrams and Euler circles to express constraints on sets and their relationships with other sets. These diagrams can usefully be used in c...
John Howse, Fernando Molina, John Taylor, Stuart K...
VL
1999
IEEE
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Formalizing Spider Diagrams
Geared to complement UML and to the specification of large software systems by non-mathematicians, spider diagrams are a visual language that generalizes the popular and intuitive...
Joseph Gil, John Howse, Stuart Kent
VL
1999
IEEE
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Ambiguity in Visual Language Theory and Its Role in Diagram Parsing
To take advantage of the ever-increasing volume of diagrams in electronic form, it is crucial that we have methods for parsing diagrams. Once a structured, content-based descripti...
Robert P. Futrelle
VL
1999
IEEE
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Visual Music in a Visual Programming Language
Sonnet was designed as a visual language for implementing real-time processes. Early design and development of behavioral components has largely focused on the domain of music pro...
Fred L. Collopy, Robert M. Fuhrer, David H. Jameso...
VL
1999
IEEE
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Visual Specification of Spatio-Temporal Developments
In this paper we propose a visual interface for the specification of predicates to be used in queries on spatio-temporal databases. The approach is based on a visual specification...
Martin Erwig, Markus Schneider
VL
1999
IEEE
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Visual Graphs
The formal treatment of visual languages is often based on graph representations. Since the matter of discourse is visual languages, it would be convenient if the formal manipulat...
Martin Erwig
VL
1999
IEEE
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Constraint-Based Diagram Beautification
Recently a new metaphor for diagramming, the intelligent diagram has emerged. This new metaphor provides an excellent basis for diagram beautification since it automatically colle...
Sitt Sen Chok, Kim Marriott, Tom Paton
VL
1999
IEEE
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Does Metaphor Increase Visual Language Usability?
Previous research suggests that graphical metaphor should increase the usability of visual programming languages (VPLs) by providing an instructional aid when learning to use the ...
Alan F. Blackwell, Thomas R. G. Green