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Agentsheets: A Medium for Creating Domain-Oriented Visual Languages
March 1995 (vol. 28 no. 3) pp. 17-25
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Visual programming languages strive to simplify the intricate process of programming by capitalizing on innate human perceptual skills. However, visual representations of general-purpose programming constructs provide little support to end-users in creating programs in specific problem domains. To empower end-users, visual languages need to be tailored toward the domains in which they will be used. End users must collaborate with language designers to create and maintain effective, domain-oriented visual programming languages. Agentsheets is a system that (1) supports visual language designers in developing domain-oriented languages consisting of constructs that are pertinent to end users, (2) stimulates an iterative design approach by facilitating the incremental modification of the look and behavior of domain-oriented languages, and (3) provides role-specific views containing specialized tools that support collaboration between end users and language designers.
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Alexander Repenning, Tamara Sumner, "Agentsheets: A Medium for Creating Domain-Oriented Visual Languages," Computer, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 17-25, Mar., 1995
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