User interface support for the integration of software tools: an iconic model of interaction

  • Authors:
  • Michel Beaudouin-Lafon

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Orsay, France

  • Venue:
  • SDE 3 Proceedings of the third ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

This paper presents a model of interaction based on an iconic representation of objects. An application of the model to an iconic shell for Unix™ is described. Finally a client server architecture for the implementation of the model is introduced. We show that a software development environment can take advantage of such a model and architecture in order to provide a consistent, adaptable and extensible user interface.