@inproceedings{39496,
  abstract     = {{With the wide availability of network supporting hard-and software cooperative computer-based environments became extremely popular. A wide range of CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) tools with video conferencing, electronic mail, shared whiteboards, discussion forums, and shared information systems are already part of daily business. In contrast to the unstructured linear stream of information in electronic mails shared workspaces provide structured administration of electronic information like documents, voice, pictures, and movies. Popular examples of shared workspaces are BSCW (Basic Support for Cooperative Work), Hypernews, Lotus Notes, Alta Vista Forum, Lifelink, Microsoft Exchange and Webshare. Currently, all these systems are not flexible enough to get easily customized to the requirements of the individual application and user only supporting a limited set of predefined different views and functionality. This article introduces VIPspace (Visually Programmable Workspace). VIPspace can be easily customized to the individual needs of an user through VIPrule, a combination of a form- and icon-based visual programming language. VIPrule is based on an easy-to-use drag and drop paradigm. Direct manipulation via drag and drop allows easy access to local file systems as well as manipulation, exchange, and publication of shared multimedia documents. As VIPspace is implemented in Java it nicely integrates with other web-applications and provides a platform independent environment with a uniform graphical user interface.}},
  author       = {{Dücker, M. and Müller, Wolfgang and Rubart, Jessica}},
  booktitle    = {{ Proceedings. 1998 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages }},
  isbn         = {{0-8186-8712-6}},
  keywords     = {{Collaborative work, Electronic mail, Computer networks, Video sharing, Videoconference, Discussion forums, Information systems, Streaming media, Motion pictures, Computer languages}},
  location     = {{Halifax, NS, Canada }},
  title        = {{{VIPspace - A Visually Programmable Shared Workspace}}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/VL.1998.706150}},
  year         = {{1998}},
}

@inproceedings{39493,
  abstract     = {{This article presents the animated visual 3D programming language SAM (Solid Agents in Motion) for parallel systems specification and animation. A SAM program is a set of interacting agents synchronously exchanging messages. The agent's behaviour is specified by means of production rules with a condition and a sequence of actions each. Actions are linearly ordered and execute when matching a rule. In SAM, main syntactic objects like agents, rules, and messages are 3D. These objects can have an abstract and a concrete, solid 3D presentation. While the abstract representation is for programming and debugging, the concrete representation is for animated 3D end-user presentations. After outlining the concepts of SAM this article gives two programming examples of 3D micro worlds and an overview of the programming environment.}},
  author       = {{Geiger, Christian and Müller, Wolfgang and Rosenbach, W.}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages}},
  isbn         = {{0-8186-8712-6}},
  keywords     = {{Animation, Computer languages, Solids, Concrete, Application software, Virtual reality, Programming profession, Switches, Visualization, Debugging}},
  location     = {{Halifax, Canada}},
  title        = {{{SAM - An Animated 3D Programming Language}}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/VL.1998.706167}},
  year         = {{1998}},
}