Lessons learned from SUIT, the simple user interface toolkit
In recent years, the computer science community has realized the advantages of GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces). Because high-quality GUIs are difficult to build, support tools such as UIMSs, UI Toolkits, and Interface Builders have been developed. ...
A high-level and flexible framework for implementing multiuser user interfaces
We have developed a high-level and flexible framework for supporting the construction of multiuser interfaces. The framework is based on a generalized editing interaction model, which allows users to view programs as active data that can be concurrently ...
EmbeddedButtons: supporting buttons in documents
EmbeddedButtons is a library of routines and a runtime kernel that support the integration of buttons into document media, including text and graphics. Existing document editors can be modified to participate in this open architecture with the addition ...
A general framework for bidirectional translation between abstract and pictorial data
The merits of direct manipulation are now widely recognized. However, direct manipulation interfaces incur high cost in their creation. To cope with this problem, we present a model of bidirectional translation between pictures and abstract application ...
A model for input and output of multilingual text in a windowing environment
The layered multilingual input/output(I/O) sytems we designed, based on typological studies of major-language writing conventions, unifies common features of such conventions to enable international and local utilization. The internationalization layer ...
