A visual medium for programmatic control of interactive applications

  • Authors:
  • Luke S. Zettlemoyer;Robert St. Amant

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, EGRC-CSC Box 7534, Raleigh, NC;Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, EGRC-CSC Box 7534, Raleigh, NC

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The VisMap system provides for visual manipulation of arbitraryoff-the-shelf applications, through an applications graphical userinterface. VisMaps API-independent control has advantages for tasksthat can benefit from direct access to the functions of the userinterface. We describe the design goals and architecture of thesystem, and we discuss two applications, a user-controlled visualscripting program and an autonomous solitaire-playing program,which together demonstrate some of the capabilities and limitationsof the approach.