Research on Visual Languages

Steve Tanimoto

• Random pattern experiment (1968).
• Iconic shorthand for camera shots in cinematography (1969).
• Discovery of structure (1971).
• Interactive graphic input languages (1972).
• Iconic/Symbolic data structure (1976).
• Stylization for image compaction (1979).
• Iconic programming (1982-84).
• PyramidCalc (1985).
• PLAY: Pictorial Language for Animation by Youngsters (1986).
• Minimal Iconic Representation in the Game of Adumbration (1987).
• Liveness in visual languages and VIVA (1990).
• Visual languages for human-to-human communication (1997). 
• Representation and Learnability in Visual Languages for Web-based Interpersonal Communication (in compressed Postscript). This paper was presented as the opening keynote address at the 1997 International Symposium on Visual Languages, Capri, Italy, September, 1997.
• The Design and Implementation of Vedo-Vedi:  A Visual Language for Human Communication in the Internet.
• Extensibility in a Web-based Visual Language for Interpersonal Communication.
• Introducting New Nouns in a Children's Visual Language (presented at VL 98 in Halifax, NS, Canada, Sept 1998).
• Slides for a talk about the background for Vedo-Vedi (Autumn 1998).
• Programming in a Data Factory (presented at HCC 2003 in Auckland, NZ, October). The prototype software can be tried out at the University of Washington's Programming Languages course website.