THE USE OF GRAPHICAL SYMBOLIC COMMANDS (ICONS) IN APPLICATION PROGRAMS

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1985
Authors
Woodgate, H. Sam
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Publisher
The Eurographics Association
Abstract
This paper describes the use of Graphical Symbols (Icons) as a means of communicating operating commands between application program and users. detailed in the paper is the operational command system for a "Spread Sheet Calculator" which was &signed to be driven entirely by Graphical Symbols using a "point and activate" command method. 83 Graphical Symbols were required to operate the program and these were developed using a "graphical symbol generator". The example User experiences are also discussed.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:eg.19851002
,
booktitle = {
Eurographics Conference Proceedings
},
editor = {
C.E. Vandoni
},
title = {{
THE USE OF GRAPHICAL SYMBOLIC COMMANDS (ICONS) IN APPLICATION PROGRAMS
}},
author = {
Woodgate, H. Sam
},
year = {
1985
},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {
1017-4656
},
ISBN = {},
DOI = {
10.2312/eg.19851002
}
}
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https://doi.org/10.2312/eg.19851002
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EG1985 Proceedings (Technical Papers)