SUMLOW: Early design-stage sketching of UML diagrams on an E-whiteboard

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 961-994

  Chen, Qi ^a   Grundy, John ^a   Hosking, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CASE tools; E whiteboards; Hand drawn visual language recognition; Sketch based user interfaces; Unified modelling language

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; FOOD PRESERVATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; MIXING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE; USER INTERFACES;

CASE TOOLS; COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARES; DESIGN TOOLS; PEN BASED INTERFACES; PEN-BASED; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; THIRD PARTIES; TOOL SETS; U ML DIAGRAMS; UNIFIED MODELLING LANGUAGE (UML); WHITE BOARDS;

DRAWING (GRAPHICS);

EID: 47749133464     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.856     Document Type: Article

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