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Repenning, A.; Citrin, W. |
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Agentsheets: Applying Grid-Based Spatial Reasoning to Human-Computer Interaction |
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1993 |
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1993 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages, Bergen, Norway |
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Agents, agentsheets, cellular automata, construction kits, spatial reasoning, spreadsheets, human-computer interaction, object-oriented programming, data-flow, iconic programming environments, visual programming, grids, building blocks |
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This paper argues that grid-based spatial reasoning can significantly improve human-computer interaction. While grids constrain the user’s ability to position objects on a screen on one hand, they greatly increase the transparency of functional relationships among these objects on the other hand. A system called Agentsheets employes the notion of agents organized in a grid. The spatial relationships between agents are used to capture design properties independent of domain and programming language. Two types of spatial relations are distinguished called strict-spatial relations and pseudo-spatial relations. This paper gives a short introduction to Agentsheets, explains how Agentsheets address problems of construction kits, sketches sample applications, and evaluates the contribution of grid-based spatial reasoning to human-computer interaction. |
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history: 1) CHI '92 submission (rejected) 2) tech report CU-CS-547-91 3) VL '93 paper (accepted) |
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