SIG: The Amulet User Interface Development Environment

Organizer

Brad A. Myers, Carnegie Mellon University

The User Interface Software Group at CMU is investigating ways to make the design, prototyping, and implementation of user interfaces substantially easier. Unlike other user interface development environment that deal only with widgets like menus, scroll bars, and buttons, we concentrate on the insides of application windows, which is the part that takes most of the programmer's time to design and implement. Typical applications of the technology include visualizations and visual programming environments, drawing programs, user interfaces for expert systems, graph editors, graphical programming languages, game user interfaces, simulation and process monitoring programs, user interface construction tools, CAD/CAM programs, etc.

The meeting will allow users and developers of Amulet to meet each other and exchange information and suggestions. We will present a short demo of Amulet running. We will also give an overview of the existing Amulet system using overhead transparencies. We then hope to get one or two users of Amulet to present what they have done with the system. Finally, we will discuss our ideas for the new version of Amulet and the innovations planned for it. Significant time will be dedicated to discussion and questions from the audience.

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