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

fYear

1998

fDate

1-4 Sep 1998

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

75

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Halifax, NS

ISSN

1049-2615

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8712-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VL.1998.706140

Filename

706140