Visual Programming Languages

C o n t e n t s

• Call for Papers
• Conferences
• Previous Conferences
• Online Courses
• Journals
• Visual Languages and Construction Environments: Resources and Pages
  • Visual Languages pages
• Home Pages for VL People
• Software Visualization
• 3D Interfaces
• Other User Interface Information
• FTP sites
• Miscellaneous online papers and resources
• Information about MAP

Call for Papers

Conferences

• The American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 1997 Fall Symposium: Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations II, November 7-9, 1997, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• The Fifth ACM International Conference on Multimedia, November 9-13, 1997 Seattle WA (registration date: October 18).
• Satellite workshop to ETAPS/TACAS '98 on Visualization issues in Formal Methods (VISUAL '98), March 30, 1998, Lisbon, Portugal. (Submission deadline is Oct 31/Jan 12 for full papers/extended abstracts).
• Workshop on Logic and Diagrammatic Information (LDI98) to be held in conjunction with LICS '98, June 25, Indianapolis, IN. (Submission date March 15).

(see also HCI Index: Conferences and Workshops)

Previous Conferences

• CHI International '97, August 24-29, 1997, San Francisco, California.
• IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages '97, September 23-26, 1997, Europa Palace Hotel, Capri, Italy.
• PLDI'97, 1997 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Las Vegas, Nevada, 15-18 June 1997.
• AVI'98, L'Aquila, Italy, May 25-27, 1998.
• CHI 97, March 22-27, 1997, Atlanta, Georgia.
• ACM MultiMedia '96 Boston, Massachusetts, November 18-22, 1996
• IEEE Visualization '96 (In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH) San Francisco, California, October 27 - November 1, 1996
• Information-Theoretic Approaches to Logic, Language, and Computation (ITALLC '96), 21-24 July, 1996, Regent's College, London, England.
• IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages '96, September 3-6, 1996, Boulder, CO, USA.
• Child's Play '96, September, 1996, Boulder CO, USA.
• International Workshop on Theory of Visual Languages, May 30, 1996 Gubbio, Italy
• International Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '96) Gubbio, Italy - May 27-29, 1996
• Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 1996, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 21-24, 1996
• CHI'96 Research Symposium, Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14 1996, Vancouver, Canada
• CHI '96, April 14 - 18, 1996, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• International Conference on Visual Information Systems (VISUAL '96), 5-6 February 1996, Melbourne, Australia
• UIST '95 (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology), November 15-17, 1995
• 6th IEEE Visualization '95 Conference October 29-November 3, 1995 (abstracts)
• International Workshop on Constraints for Graphics and Visualization, September 18, 1995, Cassis, France
• IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages '95, September 5-9, 1995
• TOOLS USA
• SIGPLAN Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), La Jolla, California, June 18-21, 1995
• CAiSE'95, 12-16 June 1995
  (Topic: Supporting End User Development with Visual Programming and Object-Orientation)
• Principles and Techniques for User Interface Design, May 22-24, 1995
• CHI '95, May 7-11, 1995
• 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, April 9-12, 1995 in Monterey, CA USA
• Child's Play: A Hands-On Workshop on End-User Programming, February 23 - 24, 1995, University of Colorado, Boulder
• UIST '94, November 2-4, 1994

Online courses

• User Interface Strategies '96: Quality Usability Engineering

Journals

• Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
• Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Visual Languages and Construction Environments

• comp.lang.visual, archive at ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9 or 192.48.96.9) in /usenet/comp.lang.visual/
• IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, 1995, 1996
• IEEE Visual Languages Papers
• Visual Languages and Visual Programming (WWW Virtual Library)
• Visual Languages Info Sheet by Seth Tager
• University of Geneva: Visual Programming/Software Engineering group
• University of Geneva: Visual Programming/Software Engineering group (English)
• University of Geneva CBL/SE group
• University of Exeter: Software Visualization and Animation system
• Visual Languages & Multimedia Computing Research at the University of Pittsburgh
• University of Leeds: Workgroup on Graphical Programming and User Interfaces
• The Cubicon Project - A Visual Design Environment
• Intelligent Pad - An application development environment
• Data Explorer
  • Cornell Theory Center - Data Explorer
  • IBM Visualization Data Explorer Home Page
  • University of Montana - Data Explorer Repository
  • Dartmouth's Data Explorer Page
• Visual Specification Languages at the Software Engineering and Information Systems (SEIS) page
• Visual FAQ in WWW/html format
  [ by Dan Liberte, liberte@a.cs.uiuc.edu ]
• Wayne Citrin's VL bibliography
• Ian Roger's VPL Page
• The VPL Classification project and bibliography
  [ by Benjamin Summers, summers@storm.cs.orst.edu, and Margaret Burnett, burnett@cs.orst.edu ]
• VL/VP references and resources
  • README
  • Intro
  [ ref: Bertrand Ibrahim, bertrand@cui.unige.ch ]
• Yahoo's Visual Languages Page
• Visual Languages:
  • Agentsheets (see also LEGOsheets and The Programmable LEGO Brick)
  • Cantata - visual programming environment for the Khoros system
  • Cocoa (formerly known as KidSim)
  • CODE Visual Parallel Programming System
  • Cube
  • Easy Programmer
  • Forms/3
  • Glide
  • Garnet
  • HeNCE (and PVM) Programmer's Manual
  • LabVIEW
  • LCRCvisual from Laboratory Computer Resource Corporation
  • LEGOsheets
  • MAP
  • Microbrew - a visual programming environment for Windows and Macintosh (formerly Appware).
  • NL Visual Language (compressed postscript paper)
  • Pancode/Boxchart
  • Programming by Example home page
  • Prograph:
    • Web site for Pictorius Incorporated (the makers of Prograph)
    • comp.lang.prograph FAQ
    • Misc. Prograph stuff
    • Prograph CPX Research Notes
  • Progres
  • Python
  • Self
  • Show and Tell
  • Visual syntax for Smalltalk
  • Tioga
  • ToonTalk
  • VIPERS
    • MARMOTTA
  • VIPR
  • VisSim
  • Visual Designer, a visual signal-processing application generator.
  • 3D-Visulan

Home Pages for VL People

• Jason Baragry
• Marc Brown
• Margaret Burnett
• Wayne Citrin
• Nikos Drakos
• Elisabeth Freeman
• Thomas Green
• Bertrand Ibrahim
• Mike Kleyn
• Daniel LaLiberte
• Henry Lieberman
• Marc Najork
• Alex Repenning
• Ian Rogers
• Ben Shneiderman
• Susan Uskudarli
• Nate Waddoups
• Kent Wittenburg

Software Visualization

• ACM SIGGRAPH
• Pointers to Software Visualization Systems
• Graphics Visualization and Usability Center - Software Visualization (Tango, Polka, etc.)
  [ John Stasko, stasko@cc.gatech.edu ]
• Polka (papers and software)
• Los Alamos Graphics and Visualization
• Khoros
• IRIS Explorer Center
• AVS
• Computer Graphics and Visualization (WWW Virtual Library)
• The Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the University of Maryland
• The Brown Computer Graphics Group (visualization, user interfaces, 3D widgets, etc).
• VisAD and Vis5D at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• DV-Centro and DataViews at the DataViews Corporation

3D Interfaces

• Workshop on the Challenges of 3D Interaction, CHI '94
• Cube
• VISTA: Visual Interface for Space and Terrestrial Analysis
• Design Space, Center for Design Research at Stanford University
• Pointers to several online papers by G. G. Robertson, S. K. Card, and J. D. Mackinlay (Information Visualization, Cone Trees, Perspective Wall)
• Brown Computer Graphics Group 3D interface research
• Brown Computer Graphics Group 3D User Interface Toolkit

Other User Interface Information

• ACM SIGCHI
• Apple Advanced Technology Group Technical Reports and Research Notes
• HCI Conferences
• The Magic Lenses Interface Project at the Xerox Parc Graphics and Interaction Research Group.
• ILU Interface Work at Xerox Parc
• Visual Recall Data Sheet (link broken??)
• User Interface Software Tools
• User Interface Strategies - series of annual interactive satellite broadcasts that addresses issues in human-computer interaction.
• Human Computer Interaction Index of online resources
• Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland
  • Virtual Reality and Telepresence
• Human Computer Interaction at Stanford
• People, Computers, and Design at Stanford
• The Brown Computer Graphics Group (visualization, user interfaces, 3D widgets, etc).
• Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG)
• The Human Factors Hotlist
• The Pad++ page at the University of New Mexico
• The Lifestreams Project at Yale University

FTP Sites

• Listing of papers from Visual Language Symposiums
• Executables for ChemTrains and NoPumpGII
• Graph Drawing
• Prograph source archives
• Papers, user manuals for CODE 2.0
• Source, manuals and papers for HeNCE 1.4
• Escalanate source/binaries & users' guide
• LabVIEW (1), LabVIEW (2) ftp sites, and mailing list
• GIL papers and GIL toolkit, including theorem prover
• HyperPascal papers (broken???)
  files: PICSIL.ps, hyperpas.ps
• Hyperflow Papers:
  • Kimura, T. Hyperflow: A Uniform Visual Language for Different Levels of Programming
  • Kimura, T. Hyperflow: A Visual Programming Language for Pen Computers
• [G&H93a], [G&H93b] (broken???)
• VIPR papers (1), (2)
  files: CU-CS-672-93.ps.Z ([CITRIN93a]), CU-CS-673-93.ps.Z ([CITRIN93b]), VOOP-VIPR.ps.Z ([CITRIN94])
• Thomas Green's Directory

Miscellaneous online papers and resources

• Tim Menzies Page including pointers to his papers:
  • Visual Programming, Software Engineering, and Knowledge Engineering
  • Frameworks for Assessing Visual Languages

The MAP Programming Environment home page.

Notes and Publications

• Visual Languages Lecture for CS525, Yale University CS Department

• The Map Visual Programming Environment: Abstract

• Elisabeth Freeman. The Visual Programming Environment , MS Report, Yale University, 1993.

• Elisabeth Freeman and Susanne Hupfer. A Model for 3D Interaction with Hierarchical Information Spaces, Position Paper for CHI '95 Research Symposium (May 6-7, 1995, Denver, Colorado U.S.A.).
  Yale University TR #: 1071.
  (View Paper (gzipped postscript))

• Elisabeth Freeman, David Gelernter and Suresh Jagannathan. In Search of a Simple Visual Vocabulary, 1995 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, September 5-9, 1995, pp 302-309.
  Yale University TR #: 1073.
  (View Paper (gzipped postscript) (HTML))

• Slides and selected pictures from IEEE Visual Languages '95 talk, September 9, 1995.

• Elisabeth Freeman and David Gelernter. Meta Information in Visual Programming.
  Yale University TR #: 1094, December 1995.
  (View Paper (gzipped postscript))
  

• Elisabeth Freeman, David Gelernter and Suresh Jagannathan. Uniformity of Environment and Computation in MAP. 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, September 3-6, 1996.
  (View Paper (gzipped postscript))
  

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