Officeaid VPE: a visual programming with examples system for specifying routine office tasks

Authors:
Paolino Di Felice;Frederick L. Lochovsky;Thierry Mosser
Affiliations:
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Università dell'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy;Computer Systems Research Institute, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4;Telic Alcatel, Unitè de Researche, 15 rue du M. Lefebvre, 67000 Strasbourg, France
Venue:
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Year:
1991

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Abstract

The need for new applications in organizations is growing while the ability of computer professionals to supply them is being strained. One approach to alleviating this problem is to provide tools to the users themselves to help them program their applications. In this paper we describe an end-user program development environment for programming office tasks using visual programming and by-example techniques. The programming environment uses an iconic programming language enhanced with visual control structures and direct manipulation of the icons and control structures to specify office tasks.