A General Framework for Bidirectional Translation Between Abstract and Pictorial Data

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 408-437

  Matsuoka, Satoshi ^a   Takahashi, Shin ^a   Kamada, Tomihisa ^b   Yonezawa, Akinori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Research and Development ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

bidirectional translation; direct manipulation; user interface; user interface management systems; visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA PROCESSING; FILE EDITORS; HUMANITIES COMPUTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING; ABSTRACT APPLICATION DATA; BIDIRECTIONAL TRANSLATION; DIRECT MANIPULATION; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM TRIP2; USER INTERFACE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0026933483     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/146486.146557     Document Type: Article

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