GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-93-33
Title:
Animating User Interfaces Using Animation Servers
Authors:
Krishna Bharat
Piyawadee "Noi" Sukaviriya
Abstract:
Our approach to user interface animation involves simulating the
interaction of a user with the interface by synthetically generating the
input events that drive the session. The interaction is made explicit by
displaying the behavior of input devices audio-visually. Such "animation"
is both educational and functional, and has the potential to become a
powerful new medium in the graphical user interface domain. We describe
the construction of a general purpose tool for animating user interfaces
- the animation server. Clients drive the server with textual scripts
that describe the interaction. These may contain constructs for obtaining
application context information at runtime and synchronizing with other
media servers. We present a few potential applications for animation
servers, including a groupware package for loosely coupled collaboration.
Keywords:
User interface animation, animation server, extensible interfaces,
multimedia, context-sensitivity, application state, CSCW
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