User interface design
A survey of visual language specification and recognition
Visual language theory
Visual language theory: towards a human computer interaction perspective
Visual language theory
The invisible computer
Visual Languages and Visual Programming
Visual Languages and Visual Programming
Dimensions of Visual Interaction Design
VL '99 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
Cocktailmaps: a space-filling visualization method for complex communicating systems
AVI '96 Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced visual interfaces
Taxonomies of visual programming and program visualization
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Defining visual languages for interactive computing
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
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Many different reasons have induced researchers to develop languages exploiting visual representations. Visual elements, two-dimensional parsers and, more generally, new language grammars (of different kinds) were suggested and implemented in these last fifteen years, both formally and experimentally, depending on the background of the authors. After indicating targets and motivations for research on visual languages, a few taxonomies will be considered. Two examples of visual languages, together with the point of view taken by their originators, will also be provided as well as some important steps in the progress made along these years. Finally, the open questions and future research directions will be given, together with an indication of the principal events which act as international windows on longtime discussions relevant for the design of new and, more effective, visual languages.