Defining visual languages for interactive computing

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 773-783

  Bottoni, P ^a   Costabile, M F ^b   Levialdi, S ^a   Mussio, P ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTING; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031271108     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.634641     Document Type: Article

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