Interacting with a visual editor

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we investigate the problem of querying a database of images. In order to improve the communication between human and computer, we propose a visual editor as an interaction tool. Really, the most simple way to formulate a query to a database of images is to allow the user to draw a sketch of the picture he is interested in. This sketch will be used to formulate a query within the visual query system. This editor, called VisEd, has been developed following a formal model (the PIE model), where properties such as completeness, reachability, and particularly undo, hold.

REFERENCES

• 1: T. Catarci, M. F. Costabile, S. Levialdi and C. Batini (1995), Visual Query Systems for Databases: a Survey, Technical Report SI/RR 95/17, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", October 1995.
• 2: Ben Shneiderman, A taxonomy and rule base for the selection of interaction styles, Human factors for informatics usability, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 1991
• 3: S. K. Chang (1987), Visual Languages: a tutorial and survay, IEEE Software, 4, pp. 29--39.
• 4: T. Catarci, M. F. Costabile (1995), Special Issue on Visual Query Systems, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 6, 1, 1995.
• 5: Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced visual interfaces, June 1994
• 6: C. Batini, T. Catarci, M. F. Costabile and S. Levialdi (1991), Visual Query Systems, Technical Report 04/91, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", March 1991.
• 7: Computer, Vol. 28, No. 9, IEEE Computer Society, September 1995.
• 8: William I. Grosky , Rajiv Mehrotra, Index-based object recognition in pictorial data management, Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, v.52 n.3, p.416-436, Dec. 1990 [doi>10.1016/0734-189X(90)90085-A]
• 9: C. C. Chang , S. Y. Lee, Retrieval of similar pictures on pictorial databases, Pattern Recognition, v.24 n.7, p.675-681, 1991 [doi>10.1016/0031-3203(91)90034-3]
• 10: Kyoji Hirata , Toshikazu Kato, Query by Visual Example - Content based Image Retrieval, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology, p.56-71, March 23-27, 1992
• 11: R. Day (1993), Photoshop: dal video alla stampa, Jackson libri.
• 12: Claris (1995), MacDrawPro - Guida per l'utente, Claris Corporation, Santa Clara, California.
• 13: S. Zarroli, (1995), Interazione attraverso la grafica: un editore di contorni, Tesi di laurea A. A. 1994/1995 in Scienze dell'Informazione, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza".
• 14: S. Levialdi, P. Mussio, M. Protti, and L. Tosoni, 1993, Reflection on Icons, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, Bergen, Norway, pp. 249--254.
• 15: A. J. Dix and C. Runciman, 1985, Abstract models of interactive systems, in People and Computers: designing the Interface, ed. P. Johnson and S. Cook, Cambridge University Press, pp. 13--22.
• 16: Harold Thimbleby, User interface design, ACM Press, New York, NY, 1990
• 17: A. J. Dix, 1991, Formal Methods for Interactive Systems, Academic Press.
• 18: Alan Dix , Janet Finlay , Gregory Abowd , Russell Beale, Human-computer interaction, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997
• 19: G. C. Peritore, (1995), Basi di dati pittoriali: un sistema interattivo con interrogazione per analogia, Tesi di laurea A.A. 1994/1995 in Scienze dell'Informazione, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza".
• 20: Gregory D. Abowd , Alan J. Dix, Giving undo attention, Interacting with Computers, v.4 n.3, p.317-342, Dec. 1992 [doi>10.1016/0953-5438(92)90021-7]
• 21: Adrian Nye , Tim O'Reilly, X Toolkit intrinsics programming manual: second edition for X11, release 4, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1990
• 22: S. K. Chang, M. F. Costabile and S. Levialdi (1994), Reality Bites - Progressive Querying and result visualization in logical and VR Spaces, Proc. of the IEEE Symposyum on Visual Languages, pp. 100--109.

INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
formal model, reachability, undo, visual editor, visual query system