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Building Interactive Systems

Architectures and Tools

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Philip Gray

    1. Computing Science Department, University of Glasgrow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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  2. Roger Took

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, UK

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Part of the book series: Workshops in Computing (WORKSHOPS COMP.)

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Table of contents (13 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Architectures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-5
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    2. The Active Medium: A Conceptual and Practical Architecture for Direct Manipulation

      • Roger Took
      Pages 6-22

    3. Surface Interaction: A Paradigm for Object Communication

      • Peter Williams
      Pages 23-34

    4. HyperCard: An Object-Oriented Disappointment

      • Harold Thimbleby, Andy Cockburn, Steve Jones
      Pages 35-55

    5. An Architecture for HCI in Real-time Systems

      • A. Burns
      Pages 56-68

    6. Logical Input Devices — An Outdated Concept?

      • D. A. Duce, P. J. W. ten Hagen, R. van Liere
      Pages 69-84

    7. A Generalised Event Mechanism for Interactive Systems

      • Peter Rosner, Mel Slater, Allan Davison
      Pages 85-103

    8. Generalising MVC to ERID : orthogonalising entities, representations, and input dispatching to interaction classes

      • Ramzan Mohamed, Stephen W. Draper
      Pages 104-114

    9. Constructing front-ends to existing software systems

      • E. A. Edmonds, I. Reid, S. P. Heggie, D. J. Cornali
      Pages 115-127

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 243-245
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About this book

Architectures and tools are two important considerations in the construction of interactive computer systems. The former is concerned with the optimal structural organisation of systems and the latter with the effective support of the design and management of user interfaces. They are regarded as the areas of research most likely to contribute to the development of existing interactive systems, in particular by providing improved architectures capable of supporting new styles of interaction and more sophisticated software tools to improve productivity. This volume combines the proceedings of two workshops held in York and Glasgow which concentrated on architectures and tools respectively. In doing so it addresses the problems of user interface construction from two complementary viewpoints and provides alternative perspectives on many of the central issues. Some of the papers are published in expanded form to provide a more comprehensive coverage of the topics and two additional papers have been included which offer a useful insight into issues raised by the workshops. The papers address formal and theoretical concerns as well as academic and commercial ones. Specific topics covered include novel-input models, architectures for real-time systems and object-oriented user interface tools for X-widgets, NeWS- and Smalltalk-based applications. The papers also include presentations of new tools and architectural designs. Building Interactive Systems: Architectures and Tools provides the most extensive recent account of research into the relationship between architectures and tools in the construction of interactive computer systems and will be of interest to researchers, postgraduate students and software developers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Computing Science Department, University of Glasgrow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Philip Gray

  • Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, UK

    Roger Took

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Building Interactive Systems

  • Book Subtitle: Architectures and Tools

  • Editors: Philip Gray, Roger Took

  • Series Title: Workshops in Computing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3548-7

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-19736-2Published: 09 April 1992

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-3548-7Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1682

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 245

  • Number of Illustrations: 93 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: Jointly published with British Computer Society

  • Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Software Engineering

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