LADDER, a sketching language for user interface developers

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 518-532

  Hammond, Tracy ^a   Davis, Randall ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical scene analysis; Knowledge representation; Object modeling; Object recognition; Representation languages; Representations; Shape; User centered design; Vision and scene understanding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER VISION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

HIERARCHICAL SCENE ANALYSIS; OBJECT MODELING; SHAPE; USER-CENTERED DESIGN; VISION AND SCENE UNDERSTANDING;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 24144445888     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2005.05.005     Document Type: Article

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