Title :
Introducing new nouns in a children´s visual language
Author :
Tanimoto, Steven L. ; Bernardelli, Carlo E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Washington Univ., Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
Vedo-Vedi is an experimental visual language for multi-lingual electronic communication by 10-year-old children using the Internet. In this paper, we present a novel mechanism by which users can create new vocabulary items for the language. One of the challenges of providing such an extension mechanism for a visual language is making it easy to define new icons, even if the users are not comfortable with artistic drawing tools. In Vedo-Vedi, users can create new icons by selecting arbitrary rectangular regions from any of the more than 80 images used in the system
Keywords :
Internet; computer animation; computer communications software; educational computing; electronic messaging; graphical user interfaces; visual languages; vocabulary; Internet; Vedo-Vedi; artistic drawing tools; children´s visual language; icon definition; language extension mechanism; multi-lingual electronic communication; nouns; rectangular region selection; vocabulary item creation; Animation; Art; Databases; Inference mechanisms; Internet; Java; Natural languages; Search engines; Vocabulary; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Halifax, NS
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8712-6
DOI :
10.1109/VL.1998.706140
