MIT Media Lab
Visible Language Workshop
Publications List - March 1, 1995


  • Colby, Grace. "Maintaining Legibility, Structure, and Style of Information Layout in Dynamic Display Environment." Short talk given at CHI '92, Monterey, CA. May 1992.

  • Colby, Grace, and Laura Scholl. "Transparency and Blur as Selective Cues for Complex Visual Information." SPIE. March 1991.

  • Cooper, Muriel. "Computers and Design." Design Quarterly, Vol. 142, pp. 22-31. 1989.

  • Ishizaki, Suguru. "Adjusting Simultaneous Contrast Effect for Dynamic Information Display." IS&T and SID's 2nd Color Imaging Conference. Phoenix, AZ. Nov. 15-18, 1994.

  • Ishizaki, Suguru and Ishantha Lokuge. "Intelligent Interactive Dynamic Maps." Twelfth International Symposium on Computer-Assisted Cartography, Charlotte NC, February 27- March 1, 1995.

  • Isonishi, Tetsuaki, Kenneth Haase, and Muriel Cooper. "A Content-Based Multimedia Retrieval System and its Visual Interface." In-house paper, March 1994.

  • Kullberg, Robin. "Mark Your Calendar! Learning Personalized Annotation from Integrated Sketch and Speech." CHI'95, Denver, CO, May 7-11, 1995.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Communication of Expert Knowledge in Graphic Design." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, 1986. 15 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Common EVAL". In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, 1986. 5 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Constructing Graphical User Interfaces By Example". Proceedings Graphics Interface, Toronto, Ontario. May 1982.

  • Lieberman, Henry. and Carl Hewitt. "Design Issues in Parallel Architectures for Artificial Intelligence." In-house Publication. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1983. 13 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Debugging Graphical User Interfaces." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, November 1986. 9 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Designing Interactive Systems from the User's Viewpoint." In Integrated Interactive Computing Systems, edited by P. Degano and E. Sandwell, 1983, 15 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Dominoes and Storyboards: Beyond Icons on Strings." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Languages, Seattle, WA. September 1992.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "An Example Based Environment for Beginning Programmers." Instructional Science, Vol. 14, pp. 277-292. 1986.

  • Lieberman, Henry, and David Zeltzer. "Gestural Input of Procedures for Task-Level Animation." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab. 10 pages

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Getting Things to Fit." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, 6 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Graphical Annotation as a Visual Language for Specifying Generalization Relations." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, 5 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Graphics for Software Visualization." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, 1989. 21 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "How To Color in a Coloring Book." In-house Publication. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 6 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Intelligent Graphics: Artificial Intelligence at the Visible Language Workshop." In-house publication. MIT Media Lab, August 1994, 10 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Intelligent Media for the 90's." In-house publication. MIT Media Lab, July 1992, 19 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Layout as Interface: From Newspaper Design to Program Design." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, 12 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Languages, Object Oriented." Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1, 4 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Learning at the Interface." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, 6 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Machine Tongues IX: Object-Oriented Programming." Computer Music Journal. Vol. 6, Num. 3. Fall 1982. 13 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Marcottage: A Navigational Approach to Object Networks." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, October 1990.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Mondrian: A Teachable Graphical Editor." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab. 9 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Music as a Command Language." In-house Publication. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, October 1987, 7 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Powers of Ten Thousand: Navigating in Large Information Spaces." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, 8 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "A Preview of Act I." In-house Publication. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. June, 1981, 29 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Programming Descriptive Analogies by Example." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, July 1985, 26 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "A Real-Time Garbage Collector Based on the Lifetimes of Objects." Communications of the ACM. Vol. 26, Num. 6. June, 1983, 11 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Reversible Object-Oriented Interpreters." In-house Publication. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. January 1987, 14 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Seeing What Your Programs Are Doing." International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. Vol. 21, 1984, 20 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "A Session With Tinker: Interleaving Program Testing With Program Design." In house Publication. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. September 1980, 35 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Steps Towards Better Debugging Tools for Lisp." Symposium on Lisp and Functional Programming. Austin, TX, 1984. 10 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, 1989, 14 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "There's More to Menu Systems Than Meets the Screen." Proceedings of ACM SigGraph Computer Graphics Conference, San Francisco, CA, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 181-189. July 1985.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Thinking About Lots of Things at Once Without Getting Confused: Parallelism in Act I." In-house Publication. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. May 1981, 23 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "A Three-Dimensional Representation for Program Execution." Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Visual Languages. 1989.

  • Lieberman, Henry, Michael Arent , and Laurie Vertelney. "Three Characters in Search of an Interface: A Case Study in Interface Design Process." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab., 11 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry, Michael Arent, and Laurie Vertelney. "Two Disciplines in Search of an Interface." In The Art of Human Computer Interface Design, edited by Brenda Laurel, pp. 45-55. Addison-Wesley, 1989.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Toward Intelligent Interfaces for Graphical Design Applications." Proceedings of International Conference on Fifth Generation Computer Systems, Tokyo, pp. 1073-1080. November 1988.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "User Interfaces for Program Debugging." Tutorial at ACM Computers and Human Interaction Conference, Austin, TX. 1989.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Using Prototypical Objects to Implement Shared Behavior in Object Oriented Systems." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. March 1986, 21 pages.

  • Lieberman, Henry. "Visual Programming: A Vision for the Future." Friend-21 Conference on Human Interface Technology, Tokyo. September 1989.

  • Linowes, Jonathan. "Conventions for Object Oriented Programming in C." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, Visible Language Workshop. March 1986, 15 pages.

  • Lokuge, Ishantha and Suguru Ishizaki. "GeoSpace: An Interactive Visualization System for Exploring Complex Information Spaces." CHI'95, Denver, CO, May 7-11, 1995.

  • MacNeil, Ronald. "Adaptive Perspectives: Case-Based Reasoning with TYRO, the Graphic Designer's Apprentice." Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages. 1990.

  • MacNeil, Ronald. "Capturing Multimedia Design Knowledge Using TYRO, the Constraint Based Designer's Apprentice." Proceedings of the SPSE Symposium on Electronic Imaging. 1991, 9 pages.

  • MacNeil, Ronald. "Generating Multimedia Presentations Automatically Using TYRO, the Constraint, Case-Based Designer's Apprentice." Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages, Kobe, Japan. October 1991.

  • MacNeil, Ronald. "TYRO: A Constraint Based Graphic Designer's Apprentice." Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages. 1989.

  • Masuishi, Tetsuya, Ronald MacNeil, and David Small. "6,000 x 2,000 Display Prototype ." Proceedings of SPIE/IS&T Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science & Technology, San Jose, CA. February 1992.

  • Purcell, Patrick. "Computer Environments for Design and Designers." Design Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 144-149. July 1988.

  • Purcell, Patrick, and Dan Applebaum. "Light Table: An Interface to Visual Information Systems." In Electronic Design Studio, edited by Patrick Purcell, et. al., pp. 229-238. Cambridge: MIT Press, June 1990.

  • Rennison, Earl. "Galaxy of News: An Approach to Visualizing and Understanding Expansive News Landscapes." Presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Marina del Rey, CA. November 2-4, 1994.

  • Rennison, Earl, Lisa Strausfeld and David Allport. "Issues of Gestural Navigation in Abstract Information Spaces." CHI'95, Denver, CO, May 7-11, 1995.

  • Robin, Laura. "Temporal Adaptation of Multimedia Scripts." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, Visible Language Workshop, 11 pages.

  • Small, David. "Simulating Watercolor by Modeling Diffusion, Pigment and Paper Fibers." In-house Publication. MIT Media Lab, March 1991, 7 pages.

  • Small, David, Suguru Ishizaki and Muriel Cooper. "Typographic Space." CHI '94 Companion , Boston, MA. April 24-28, 1994.

  • Strausfeld, Lisa. "Financial Viewpoints: Using Point-of-view to Enable Understanding of Information." CHI'95, Denver, CO, May 7-11, 1995.

  • Weitzman, Louis, and Kent Wittenburg. "Automatic Presentation of Multimedia Documents Using Relational Grammars." ACM Multimedia '94, San Francisco, CA. October 15-20, 1994. 9 pages.

  • Weitzman, Louis. "Designer: A Knowledge-Based Graphic Design Assistant." In Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design. Vol.1 , edited by Christopher Tong and Duvvuru Sriram, Boston, MA: Academic Press, Inc. 1992, 34 pages.

  • Weitzman, Louis, and Mark Rosenstein. "The HITS Icon Editor: The Specification of Graphic Behavior Without Coding." Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Hawaii International Conf. on Systems Sciences. Jan. 1990, 8 pages.

  • Weitzman, Louis, and Kent Wittenburg. "Relational Grammars for Interactive Design." Proceedings from the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages. August 1993, 8 pages.

  • Weitzman, Louis, James D. Hollan, and Edwin L. Hutchins. "Steamer: An Interactive Inspectable Simulation-Based Training System." AI Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1984, 27 pages.

  • Weitzman, Louis, Kent Wittenburg, and Jim Talley. "Unification-based Grammars and Tabular Parsing for Graphical Languages." Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Vol. 2, 1991, 23 pages.

  • Weitzman, Louis, Anil Chakravarthy, and Kenneth Haase. "A Uniform Memory-based Representation for Visual Languages." Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria, August 1992, 5 pages.

  • Weitzman, Louis, and Kent Wittenburg. "Visual Grammars and Incremental Parsing for Interface Languages." MCC Technical Report Number ACT-HI-163-90, April 1990, 18 pages.

  • Wong, Yin Yin and Suguru Ishizaki, "Beyond the Smileys : ) An Approach to Expressive Email." In-house paper.

  • Yang, Xiaoyang, Margaret Burnett, Richard Hossli, Tim Pulliam, and Brian VanVoorst. "Toward Visual Programming Languages for Steering Scientific Computations." IEEE Computational Science and Engineering, Winter 1994, pp. 44-62.