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A visual tool for user-interface development

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VITUID is a visual tool for user interface development. It aims to help user-interface designers, who may be non-programmers, to specify and create interactive, graphical user interfaces through graphical interaction. VITUID lets designers specify the user command set and the human-computer dialogs by building a tree and specifying the behavior of each dialog via a dialog-control word, adopting the object-oriented approach. The main strategy of VITUID is to separate a user interface into an application-dependent part and an application-independent part and then let the designer specify only the application-dependent part.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Nanjing University, 210008, Nanjing, Peoples Republic of China

    Shijie Cai, Wei Li &  Honggang-Zhang

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  1. Shijie Cai
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Cai, S., Li, W. & Honggang-Zhang A visual tool for user-interface development. The Visual Computer 8, 134–143 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01900553

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