Interactive animation for visualisation of mapping of parallel programs into parallel processors

Author

Zucco, Joanne E. ; Thomas, Bruce H. ; Trichina, Elena

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Univ. of South Australia, The Levels, SA, Australia

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

21-23 Apr 1998

Firstpage

386

Abstract

Techniques of cartoon animation, when applied to the interface, provide the user with greater visual cues, and convey a feeling of substance to the objects being manipulated. The paper describes the effects used to animate many of the interactions in a structured graphical editor. The editor is used as a tool in a visual parallel programming environment and provides a new large application to test the effectiveness of the concept of animated direct manipulation. Also described are the implementation issues in order to provide animated graphical feedback for direct manipulation

Keywords

computer animation; graphical user interfaces; interactive programming; parallel programming; program visualisation; programming environments; animated direct manipulation; animated graphical feedback; cartoon animation; implementation issues; interactive animation; parallel processors; structured graphical editor; visual cues; visual parallel programming environment; Animation; Application software; Australia; Concurrent computing; Feedback; Information science; Parallel programming; Testing; User interfaces; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems, 1998. Proceedings KES '98. 1998 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Adelaide, SA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4316-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/KES.1998.725999

Filename

725999