The localization of software products is essential for reaching the users of the international market. An important task for this is the translation of the user interface into local national languages. As graphical interfaces are usually optimized for the size of the texts in the original language, after the translation certain user controls (e.g. text labels and buttons in dialogs) may grow in...

We have implemented an object-oriented user interface package, called InterViews, that supports the composition of a graphical user interface from a set of interactive objects. The base class for interactive objects, called an interactor, and base class for composite objects, called a scene, define a protocol for combining interactive behaviors. Subclasses of scene define common types of compos...

Programs have to be designed in such a way as to make them looking good and being handy for all users. Adaptive interface, with all the numerous achievements throughout 30 years of its history, contains and in reality is based on one fundamental flaw – on the assumption that designer knows better than anyone else what is good for users in each and all cases. The new type of programs – user-driv...

This paper describes an empirical study of end-users that tested the usability of The Programmers' Playground graphical environment. The Programmers' Playground is a software library and run-time system for constructing distributed multimedia applications. Playground's graphical environment enables end-users to create direct manipulation graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and to dynamically confi...

Wang Chiew Tan Nat'l Univ of Singapore Singapore 119260 Email: [email protected] Ke Wang Nat'l Univ of Singapore Singapore 119260 Email: [email protected] Limsoon Wong Inst of Systems Science Singapore 119597 Email: [email protected] Abstract Formulating queries to access multiple databases can be a formidable task, especially when many terms from various databases and complex constraints a...

Multi-user applications allows users in different locations to simultaneously interact with a common interface. Creating multi-user applications is complicated by issues such as process synchronization, replicated window management, and floor control. As a result, several papers describing toolkits that simplify programming of multi-user applications have appeared in the literature. This paper ...

This paper describes a novel approach to monitor a baby and it’s emotion and needs. Feature extraction methods like Magnitude Sum function, Pitch and Energy have been performed to classify the signal. These extraction techniques are proven to be more accurate than the conventional techniques. Although combinations of all three techniques have to be used to achieve 100% accuracy, the computation...

SUMMARY A graphical user interface for the FoldX protein design program has been developed as a plugin for the YASARA molecular graphics suite. The most prominent FoldX commands such as free energy difference upon mutagenesis and interaction energy calculations can now be run entirely via a windowed menu system and the results are immediately shown on screen. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION T...

Traditional radioxenon measurements have been done by ground-based fixed systems, however in recent years there has been an increased need for systems capable of quick deployment or even complete mobility. Using the Pixie-4 data acquisition (DAQ) system can help reduce the electronics footprint of both current systems, like the radioxenon Radionuclide Laboratory 16 (RL-16) and the Swedish Autom...

A personalized integrated telecommunications management system is described; it is composed of both graphical and audio interfaces to a variety of message functions. This approach utilizes a general purpose computer with a color display and speech processing board to perform as a conversational answering machine. voice or text electronic mail terminal, and online telephone directory with repert...