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Visual Languages and Visual Programming - On-line Technical Reports

This page is maintained by Bertrand Ibrahim <bertrand@cui.unige.ch>, Visual Programming and Software engineering group, University of Geneva.

Most recent update: March 31, 1995

Note: if you are aware of technical reports pertaining to visual languages or visual programming, that are available on-line and that are not listed here, please let me know, so that I can add them to this list.

1995

University of Colorado, Boulder, CS Department, Ph.D. thesis: Characterization, Specification and Generation of Visual Language Applications; Jeffrey D. McWhirter; 1995, 169 pages.
Leiden University, CS Department, TR 95-05: A Parsing Algorithm for Context-Sensitive Graph Grammars; J. Rekers, A. Schürr; January 1995 43 pages.
MRC Applied Psychology Unit: Noddy's Guide to Visual Programming ,; T.R.G. Green; 1995, 5 pages.
MRC Applied Psychology Unit: Programming Plans, Imagery, and Visual Programming ,; T.R.G. Green, R. Navarro; 6 pages, submitted to INTERACT'95.

1994

DIGITAL Systems Research Center, vis94.ps.Z (warning: huge 35Mb. Postscript file): A Library for Visualizing Combinatorial Structures; Marc A. Najork, Marc H. Brown;; also appeared in IEEE Visualization '94, Washington, DC, 1994, pp 164-171
DIGITAL Systems Research Center, SRC-126 (3.5Mb Postscript file): The 1993 SRC Algorithm Animation Festival; Marc H. Brown; August 1994, 31 pages.
Leiden University, CS Department, TR 94-11: On the use of Graph Grammars for defining the Syntax of Graphical Languages

J. Rekers; 1994, 9 pages.

MRC Applied Psychology Unit

Usability Analysis of Visual Programming Environments ,

T.R.G. Green, M. Petre; 23 pages.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UIUCDCS-R-93-1838 (PhD Thesis)

Programming in Three Dimensions,

Marc-Alexander Najork, 1994, 155 pages.

Carnegie Mellon University, CS-94-156

Extending Programming by Demonstration with Hierarchical Event Histories,

David S. Kosbie, Brad A. Myers; May 94, 16 pages.

University of Colorado, VOOP-VIPR, (alternate place)

The Design of a Completely Visual Object-Oriented Programming Language

Wayne Citrin, Michael Doherty, Benjamin Zorn;

To appear in "Visual Object-Oriented Programming: Concepts and Environments", Margaret Burnett, Adele Goldberg, Ted Lewis, Editors, 1994.

University of Aachen, AIB 94-11

PROGRES, A Visual Language and Environment for PROgramming with Graph REwriting Systems,

Andy Schürr. 1994, 21 pages.

University of Aachen, AIB 94-12

Specification of Graph Translators with Triple Graph Grammars,

Andy Schürr. 1994, 17 pages.

Carnegie Mellon University, CS-94-109

Pursuit: Visual Programming in a Visual Domain,

Francesmary Modugno, Brad A. Myers; Jan. 1994, 23 pages.

University of Tokyo, uist94

Interactive Generation of Graphical User Interfaces by Multiple Visual Examples,

Ken Miyashita, Satoshi Matsuoka, Shin Takahashi, Akinori Yonezawa;

to appear in Proceedings of UIST'94.

1993

University of Colorado, Boulder, CS Department, CU-CS-655-93: Building Visual Language Applications with Escalante,; Jeffrey D. McWhirter, Zulah K. F. Eckert, Gary J. Nutt; Oct. 93, 78 pages.
Oregon State University, internal report ( compressed version, uncompressed version): OOPSLA '93 Visual Object-Oriented Programming Workshop,; Margaret M. Burnett.
University of Colorado, VL93.ps.Z: Requirements for Graphical Front Ends for Visual Languages,; Waine Citrin;; also appeared in Proceedings of the IEEE 1993 Symposium on Visual Languages Bergen, Norway, August 1993.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, vl93.ps.Z (146Kb. Postscript file): Specifying Visual Languages with Conditional Set Rewrite Systems; Mark A. Najork, Simon M. Kaplan;; also appeared in IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, Bergen, Norway, 1993, pp 12-18.
Leiden University, CS Department, TR 93-15: A Hybrid Query Language for the Extended Entity-Relationship Model

Marc Andries, Gregor Engels; 1993, TR 93-15, 18 pages.

Oregon State University, T.R. 93-60-14

A Classification System For Visual Programming Languages,

Margaret M. Burnett, Marla J. Baker; 1993.

University of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, csrp273

Towards a Visual Notation, and Editor, for User Interface Design

Ian Rogers, Jonathan Cunningham, Aaron Sloman; 52 pages.

DIGITAL Systems Research Center, SRC-110a (2.2Mb. Postscript file - abstract available)

Algorithm Animation Using 3D Interactive Graphics

Marc H. Brown, Marc A. Najork;

also appeared in ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Atlanta, GA, 1993, pp. 93 - 100.

DIGITAL Systems Research Center, SRC-98 (2.7 Mb. Postscript file - abstract available)

The 1992 SRC Algorithm Animation Festival

Marc H. Brown; March 1993, 12 pages.

University of Exeter, Department of Computer Science, vl93

Interacting Visual Abstractions of Programs

Lindsey Ford, Daniel Tallis; 1993, 5 pages.

Carnegie Mellon University, CMU-CS-93-133

Visual Representations as Feedback in a Programmable Visual Shell

Francesmary Modugno, Brad A. Myers;

March 1993, 8 pages

Carnegie Mellon University, CMU-CS-93-134

Typed Output and Programming in the Interface

Francesmary Modugno, Brad A. Myers

March 1993, 10 pages

University of Tennessee & Carnegie Mellon University, lapidary.ps

The Lapidary Graphical Interface Design Tool

Brad Vander Zanden, Brad A. Myers;

Carnegie Mellon University, marquiseCHI93.ps

Marquise: Creating complete user interfaces by demonstration

Brad Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, David S. Kosbie;

In Proceedings of InterCHI'93, 1993, pp 293-300.

University of Alberta CS TR93-04

Program Design and Animation in the Enterprise Parallel Programming Environment

Greg Lobe, Duane Szafron and Jonathan Schaeffer.

1993

Stanford University, reprint

Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface

Bay-Wei Chang, David Ungar;

UIST'93: User Interface Software and Technology, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 3-5, 1993, pp 45-55.

University of Colorado, CS-673-93, alternate place)

A Formal Definition of Control Semantics in a Completely Visual Language

Wayne Citrin, Michael Doherty, Benjamin Zorn; 1993.

University of Colorado, CS-672-93,

Control Constructs in a Completely Visual Imperative Programming Language

Wayne Citrin, Michael Doherty, Benjamin Zorn; 1993.

University of Leeds, Computer Based Learning Unit, Internal report,

Constructing object-oriented software in interactive graphical progrmming environments: An anthology.

Nikos Drakos; March 1993.

Yale University, CS dep., MS thesis,

The Visual Programming Environment

Elisabeth Freeman; April 1993.

Georgia Institute of Technology, Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, GIT-GVU-93-20

An Enhanced Spreadsheet Model for User Interface Specification

Scott Hudson; 1993.

1992

Carnegie Mellon University, ooprogOOPSLA.ps: Declarative Programming in a Prototype-Instance System: Object-Oriented Programming Without Writing Methods; Brad A. Myers, Dario A. Giuse, Brad Vander Zanden;; In Proceedings OOPSLA'92: ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, October 18-22, 1992. Vancouver, BC, Canada. SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 27, no. 10. pp. 184-200.
MRC Applied Psychology Unit: When Visual Programs are Harder to Read than Textual Programs ,; T.R.G. Green, M. Petre; 1992, 13 pages.
University of Colorado, VL92.ps.Z: An International Visual Language,; K.A. Suleiman, Waine Citrin;; also appeared in Proceedings of the IEEE 1992 Workshop on Visual Languages Seattle, September 1992.
Carnegie Mellon University, CMU-CS-92-113: Survey on User Interface Programming; Brad A. Myers, Mary Beth Rosson; February 1992
Carnegie Mellon University, CMU-CS-92-114: State of the Art in User Interface Software Tools; Brad A. Myers; February 1992
Open University, Petre-notPainting-EWHCI92.ps.Z (86K): Why a Computer Interface is Not Like a Painting: the user as a deliberate reader; Marian Petre, Blaine A. Price.; East-West HCI'92: The St. Petersburg International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Juri Gornostaev, Ed., 1992, pp 217-224.
Federal Instute of Technology in Lausanne, avi92.ps.Z (58K): Database Visual Environments Based on Advanced Data Models; Annamaria AUDDINO, Eric AMIEL, Yves DENNEBOUY, Yann DUPONT, Edi FONTANA, Stefano SPACCAPIETRA, Zahir TARI.; Advanced Visual Interfaces, T.Catarci, M.F.Costabile, S.Levialdi (Eds.), World Scientific, 1992, pp.156-170.
Federal Instute of Technology in Lausanne, er92.ps.Z (54K): SUPER - Visual Interaction with an Object-based ER Model; Annamaria Auddino, Yves Dennebouy, Yann Dupont, Edi Fontana, Stefano Spaccapietra, Zahir Tari.; Entity- Relationship Approach - ER'92, G.Pernul, A.M. Tjoa (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 1992, pp.340-356.
Brown University, CS-92-34: A Framework for Dynamic Graph Drawing; R.F. Cohen, G. Di Battista, R. Tamassia, I.G. Tollis; 1992, 38 pages.
Indiana University CS TR349: Merging interactive, modular and object-oriented programming; Sho-Huan Simon Tung.; [Ph.D. Dissertation] (Mar. 1992). 143pgs
CWI, Centre for M&CS (Netherlands) CS-R9256: The ABC structure editor. Structure-based editing for the ABC programming environment; L.G.L.T. Meertens, S. Pemberton, and G. van Rossum.
CWI, Centre for M&CS (Netherlands) CS-R9257: The Views application environment; Steven Pemberton.
CWI, Centre for M&CS (Netherlands) CS-R9258: The ergonomics of computer interfaces; Lambert Meertens, Steven Pemberton.
CWI, Centre for M&CS (Netherlands) CS-R9259: Programming aspects of Views. An open-architecture application environment; S. Pemberton.
CWI, Centre for M&CS (Netherlands) CS-R9260: Graphics in the Views system; Lon Barfield.
CWI, Centre for M&CS (Netherlands) CS-R9261: Modelling interaction tools in the Views architecture; Eddy Boeve..
CWI, Centre for M&CS (Netherlands) CS-R9262: Maintaining presentation invariants in the Views system; Job Ganzevoort.
CWI, Centre for M&CS (Netherlands) CS-R9263: Multimedia in Views; Monica Bordegoni.
CWI, Centre for M&CS (Netherlands) CS-R9264: Editing tree structures; Lon Barfield.
CWI, Centre for M&CS (Netherlands) CS-R9265: The MUSA design methodology; Steven Pemberton, Lon Barfield.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, vl92.ps.Z (1Mb. Postscript file): A Prototype Implementation of the CUBE Language; Mark A. Najork, Simon M. Kaplan;; also appeared in IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages, Seattle, WA, 1992, pp 270-272.
DIGITAL Systems Research Center, SRC-75 (1Mb. Postscript file - abstract available): Zeus: A System for Algorithm Animation and Multi-view Editing; Marc H. Brown; February 1992, 21 pages.

1991

DIGITAL Systems Research Center, SRC-76a (abstract available): Color and Sound in Algorithm Animation; Marc H. Brown, John Hershberger; August 1991, 44 pages.
Carnegie Mellon University, CMU-CS-91-112: (figures are "iffy" for some printers); A Formal Specification of a Visual Language Editor; Jeannette M. Wing, Amy Moormann Zaremski.; February 1991 [This is really a paper on the Miro language].
University of Alberta CS TR91-17: Enterprise: an Interactive Graphical Programming Environment for Distributed Software Development; Enoch Chan, Paul Lu, Jimmy Mohsin, Jonathan Schaeffer, Carol Smith, Duane Szafron and Pok Sze Wong.; 1991, Keywords: distributed computing, parallel programming, programming environments, message passing, software engineering.

1989

Brown University, CS-89-09 (abstract): Algorithms For Drawing Graphs: An Anotated Bibliography; Peter Eades, Roberto Tamassia;; An excellent overview of graph drawing algorithms.
Brown University, CS-89-06, abstract: Parsing in a Visual Language Environment; Eric J. Golin, Steven P. Reiss;; (only abstract is available on-line)
Stanford University, unidraw.ps.Z: Unidraw: A Framework for Building Domain-Specific Graphical Editors; John M. Vlissides, Mark A. Linton;; in Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October 1989.
Columbia University, CUCS-421-89: A Visual Language for Browsing, Undoing, and Redoing Graphical Interface Commands; David Kurlander, Steve Feiner;; February 1989, 18 pages.

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