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Programming time in multimedia user interfaces

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Nuno M. Guimarães,

Telmo A. CarmoAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '92: Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 125 - 134

https://doi.org/10.1145/142621.142637

Published: 01 December 1992 Publication History

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The new media types used in advance user interfaces and interactive systems introduce time as a significant variable. This paper addresses the architectural support and programming tools that should be provided to the programmer to manage the time dependencies. The approach considers that the basic models and programming paradigms adopted in the manipulation and management of time should be isomorphic with the spatial models used in existing graphical user interfaces.

The paper describes the architectural principles of a toolkit designed to support the construction of user interfaces with temporal characteristics. The Ttoolkit is an extension of an existing graphical user interface toolkit, the Xt toolkit. Its design is presented and a sample application is described.

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UIST '92: Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

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DOI:10.1145/142621

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Chorianopoulos KSpinellis D(2004)User interface development for interactive television: extending a commercial DTV platform to the virtual channel APIComputers & Graphics10.1016/j.cag.2003.12.00428:2(157-166)Online publication date: Apr-2004
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2003.12.004
Flinn SZellweger P(1995)Coordinating heterogeneous time-based media between independent applicationsProceedings of the third ACM international conference on Multimedia10.1145/217279.215307(435-444)Online publication date: 1-Jan-1995
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