Download or read book Advanced Visual Interfaces - Proceedings Of The International Workshop Avi '92 written by Levialdi Stefano and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1992-12-23 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together papers by experts in different areas of computer science, who have a common interest in the design and management of visual interfaces. Since cognitive science and metaphor analysis prove useful for understanding the basic mechanisms which allow visual interfaces to be easy to learn and use, these topics are also featured. Other areas focused on are: visual languages, visual database systems, intelligent agents for system interaction, graphical and pictorial communication tools, multimedia environments and specific technological developments.