A molecular architecture for creating advanced GUIs

Eric Lecolinet

doi:10.1145/964696.964711

A molecular architecture for creating advanced GUIs

Eric Lecolinet

CNRS LTCI

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Abstract

This paper presents a new GUI architecture for creating advanced interfaces. This model is based on a limited set of general principles that improve flexibility and provide capabilities for implementing information visualization techniques such as magic lenses, transparent tools or semantic zooming. This architecture also makes it possible to create multiple views and application-sharing systems (by sharing views on multiple computer screens) in a simple and uniform way and to handle bi-manual interaction and multiple pointers. An experimental toolkit called Ubit was implemented to test the feasibility of this approach. It is based on a pseudo-declarative C++ API that tries to simplify GUI programming by providing a higher level of abstraction.

Original language	English
Pages	135-144
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/964696.964711
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2003
Externally published	Yes
Event	UIST'03: Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: 2 Nov 2003 → 5 Nov 2003

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Conference	UIST'03: Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	2/11/03 → 5/11/03

Keywords

Bi-manual interaction
Brickgets
Declarative languages
GUI architectures
GUI toolkits
Multiple displays
Multiple-views
Transparent tools
Ubit
ZUIs

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