Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, September 3-6, 1996, Boulder, Colorado, USA. IEEE Computer Society, 1996, ISBN 0-8186-7508-X

Keynote Address I

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  Thomas R. G. Green: The Visual Vision and Human Cognition. 2

Session 1: Integrating the Language and the Environment

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  John W. Atwood Jr., Margaret M. Burnett, Rebecca A. Walpole, E. M. Wilcox, Sherry Yang: Steering programs via time travel. 4-11
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  Peer Griebel, Georg Lehrenfeld, Wolfgang Müller, Christoph Tahedl, Holger Uhr: Integrating a Constraint Solver into a Real-Time Animation Environment. 12-19
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  Wayne Citrin, Carlos Santiago: Incorporating Fisheyeing into a Visual Programming Environment. 20-27

Session 2: Program Visualization and Animation I

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  Bharat Jayaraman, Charlotte M. Baltus: Visualizing Program Execution. 30-37
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  Amir Michail: Teaching Binary Tree Algorithms through Visual Programming. 38-45
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  Zhiqing Liu: A System for Visualizing and Animating Program Runtime Histories. 46-53
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  Jennifer L. Leopold, Allen L. Ambler: A User Interface for the Visualization and Manipulation of Arrays. 54-55
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  Sho-Huan Tung: Obtaining Visual Continuations with Visualcode. 56-57

Session 3: Visual Query Languages

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  Max J. Egenhofer: Spatial-Query-by-Sketch. 60-67
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  Jacopo M. Corridoni, Alberto Del Bimbo, Silvio De Magistris, Enrico Vicario: A Visual Language for Color-Based Painting Retrieval. 68-75
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  Giuseppe Santucci: On Graph Based Interaction for Semantic Query Languages. 76-83
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  Peter G. Selfridge, Divesh Srivastava: A Visual Language for Interactive Data Exploration and Analysis. 84-85

Session 4: End-User Languages

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  Roland Hübscher: Composing Complex Behavior from Simple Visual Descriptions. 88-94
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  Kenneth M. Kahn: Seeing Systolic Computations in a Video Game World. 95-101
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  Alexander Repenning, James Ambach: Tactile Programming: A Unified Manipulation Paradigm Supporting Program Comprehension, Composition and Sharing. 102-109
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  Cathy Brand, Cyndi Rader: How Does a Visual Simulation Program Support Students Creating Science Models? 110-111

Session 5: Visual Language Implementation Techniques I

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  Dave Lewicki, Gene Fisher: VisiTile - A Visual Language Development Toolkit. 114-121
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  Guijun Wang, Allen L. Ambler: Solving Display-Based Problems. 122-129
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  Elisabeth Freeman, David Gelernter, Suresh Jagannathan: Uniformity of Environment and Computation in MAP. 130-137

Session 6: Theory of Visual Languages I

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  Susan M. Üsküdarli, T. B. Dinesh: The VAS Formalism in VASE. 140-147
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  J. Rekers, Andy Schürr: A graph based framework for the implementation of visual environments. 148-155
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  Paolo Bottoni, Maria Francesca Costabile, Stefano Levialdi, Piero Mussio: Visual Conditional Attributed Rewriting Systems in Visual Language Specification. 156-163

Session 7: Program Visualization and Animation II

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  John T. Stasko, Jeyakumar Muthukumarasamy: Visualizing Program Executions on Large Data Sets. 166-173
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  Jeffrey D. McWhirter: AlgorithmExplorer: A Student Centered Algorithm Animation System. 174-181
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  Judith S. Gurka, Wayne Citrin: Testing Effectiveness of Algorithm Animation. 182-189
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  John G. Hosking: Visualisation of Object Oriented Program Execution. 190-191
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  Sabine Volbracht, Khatoun Shahrbabaki, Gitta Domik, Gregor Fels: Perspective viewing, Anaglyph stereo or Shutter glass stereo? 192-193

Session 8: Theory of Visual Languages II

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  Kim Marriott, Bernd Meyer: Towards a Hierarchy of Visual Languages. 196-203
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  Volker Haarslev, Michael Wessel: GenEd - An Editor with Generic Semantics for Formal Reasoning about Visual Notations. 204-211

Session 9: Visual Language Design I

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  Jordi Puigsegur, Jaume Agustí-Cullell, David Stuart Robertson: A Visual Logic Programming Language. 214-221
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  Pieter van Zee, Margaret M. Burnett, Maureen Chesire: Retire Superman: Handling Exceptions Seamlessly in a Declarative Visual Programming Language. 222-230
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  Robert J. K. Jacob: A Visual Language for Non-WIMP User Interfaces. 231-238

Session 10: HCI Issues in Visual Languages

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  Alan F. Blackwell: Metacognitive Theories of Visual Programming: What do we think we are doing? 240-246
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  Jason E. Robbins, David J. Morley, David F. Redmiles, Vadim Filatov, Dima Kononov: Visual Language Features Supporting Human-Human and Human-Computer Communication. 247-254
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  Masoud Yazdani, Lindsey Ford: Reducing the cognitive requirements of visual programming. 255-262
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  Sherry Yang, Elyon DeKoven, Moshé M. Zloof: Design Benchmarks for VPL Static Representations. 263-264

Session 11: Internet and Multimedia

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  Marc H. Brown, Marc Najork: Collaborative Active Textbooks: A Web-Based Algorithm Animation System for an Electronic Classroom. 266-275
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  Junehwa Song, Michelle Y. Kim, G. Ramalingam, Raymond E. Miller, Byoung-Kee Yi: Interactive Authoring of Multimedia Documents. 276-283
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  Mark Minas, Leon A. Shklar: A High-Level Visual Language for Generating Web Structures. 284-285

Session 12: Visual Language Implementation Techniques II

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  Yuichi Koike, Yasuyuki Maeda, Yoshiyuki Koseki: Enhancing Iconic Program Reusability with Object Sharing. 288-295
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  Philip T. Cox, Trevor J. Smedley: A Visual Language for the Design of Structured Graphical Objects. 296-303
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  Christian Geiger, Ralf Hunstock, Georg Lehrenfeld, Wolfgang Müller, J. Quintanilla, Christoph Tahedl, A. Weber: Visual Modeling and 3D-Representation with a Complete Visual Programming Language - A Case Study in Manufacturing. 304-305

Session 13: Visual Language Design II

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  Shi-Kuo Chang: Dynamic Visual Languages. 308-315
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  Peter Rösch: User Interaction in a Multi-View Design Environment. 316-323
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  John C. Grundy, John G. Hosking: Visual Language Support for Planning and Coordination in Cooperative Work Systems. 324-325

Panel

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  Nicholas P. Wilde, Shi-Kuo Chang, Philip T. Cox, David Canfield Smith: VL' 96 Special Event: Perspectives from the Pioneers (Panel). 328-333

Endnote Address

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  Ben Shneiderman: The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations. 336-343