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A menu generator for audio visual networks

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An audio visual system can enhance its controllability by an interactive and user-friendly menu through which a user issues commands to control audio visual devices. One of the serious problems encountered in such menu development is that end-user's requirement specifications vary in screen layouts, device configurations and commands contents, and often involves extensive manual programming. We have definedMacroMMenu formally as a tree structure menu system model restricting a menu transition graph, and designed and implemented an automated menu prototyping system which includes a menu generator calledInteractive Proto. UsingInteractive Proto through a visual programming language, end-users themselves, who are usually non-programmers, can easily define menu specification, input this source specification, and the targetMacro Menu is generated automatically.

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  1. Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, 113, Tokyo, Japan

    Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Yukari Shirota & Tsukasa Noma

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Kunii, T.L., Shirota, Y. & Noma, T. A menu generator for audio visual networks. The Visual Computer 2, 15–30 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01890984

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