PYI: Graphical interface alternatives to window systems.

这是为期五年的PYI持续奖的第一年基数和等额资金。PI致力于协作环境的界面设计。目前的研究是关于可以让人一目了然地看到许多其他合作者的表面布局的设计。这项研究旨在提供一种无限变焦放大镜的递归系统，通过该系统，人们可以在无限放大(可变焦)的表面上读、写或创建交叉引用。作者已经开发了许多算法，用于在未增强的位图工作站上实时动态显示此类信息。这项研究将通过定义和实现交互式可缩放窗口系统中的基本功能集合来继续。然后，该系统将跨网络扩展，从而使共享信息空间可用，该共享信息空间将允许任意数量的用户在共同的虚拟环境中工作，每个用户都可能对该环境有不同的看法。研究人员还将构建应用程序，包括多比例图形“黄页”和共享电子表格系统，以测试所实施的系统的真正好处。

This is the first year base and matching amount funding of a five-year PYI continuing award. The PI works on design of interfaces for collaborative environments. The current research is on designs that allow one to see the layout of many other collaborator's surfaces at a glance. This research aims to provide a recursive system of indefinitely zoomable magnifying glasses through which one can read, write, or create cross- references on an indefinitely enlargeable (zoomable) surface. A number of algorithms for dynamically displaying such information in 'real time' on unenhanced bit-mapped workstations have already been developed by the author. The research will continue by defining and implementing the basic collection of functions in the interactive zoomable window system. Then, the system will be extended across a network, thereby making available a shared information space which will allow an arbitrary number of users to work in a common virtual environment, each possibly enjoying a different view of this environment. The researcher will also build applications, including multiscale graphical "yellow pages" and shared spreadsheet systems, to test the real benefit of the implemented system.