Language-level support for exploratory programming of distributed virtual environments

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Language-level support for exploratory programming of distributed virtual environments

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Proceedings of the 9th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology table of contents

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pages: 83 - 94

Year of Publication: 1996

ISBN:0-89791-798-7

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Blair MacIntyre	Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY
Steven Feiner	Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY

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SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
Subjects: Interaction styles (e.g., commands, menus, forms, direct manipulation)

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Languages, Reliability

Keywords:
distributed shared memory, distributed virtual environments, shared-data object model, virtual reality

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