The Programmers' Playground: A Demonstration
- Kenneth J. Goldman,
T. Paul McCartney,
Ram Sethuraman,
Bala Swaminathan
We demonstrate The Programmers' Playground, a programming environment
that supports end-user construction of distributed multimedia
applications. Features include separation of communication and
computation, dynamic end-user configuration of distributed
applications, separation of active & reactive control, and migration
of running modules. Applications include a process control
simulation, planetary orbits visualization, medical image processing
pipeline, a multimedia conferencing application, and a user interface
management system for constructing customized graphical user
interfaces (GUIs).
KEYWORDS: direct manipulation, distributed computing, graphical user
interfaces, multimedia, reconfiguration, user interface management
system
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Proceedings of the Third ACM International Multimedia Conference (MM'95),
San Francisco, CA, November 1995, pp. 317-318.
Prepared by
T. Paul McCartney
(paul@cs.wustl.edu)
Washington University Department of Computer Science