Putting Power in the Hands of End Users: A Study of Programming by Demonstration, with an Application to Geographical Information Systems

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 68-69

  Traynor, Carol ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

comic strip metaphor; End user programming; geographical information systems; programming by demonstration; visual language

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; DEMONSTRATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION USE; USER INTERFACES; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

COMIC STRIPS; COMIC-STRIP METAPHOR; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; END-USER PROGRAMMING; END-USERS; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; POWER; PROGRAMMING BY DEMON-STRATION; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842716726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/286498.286533     Document Type: Conference Paper

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