[comp.windows.x] UIMS Research Projects

murphy@photon.mpr.ca (Gail Murphy) (04/30/91)

I am trying to compile a list of UIMS that according to [Hix90] would
be in the fourth generation or beyond category.  [Hix90] defines fourth
generation UIMS as being mostly in the research stage and exhibiting
improved usability through "development of direct-manipulation interfaces
for the UIMSs themselves."  [Hix90] lists the following as examples of
fourth generation UIMS:

	Next Interface Builder
	Serpent
	TeleUse
	TAE Plus
	UIMX
	User Interface Development Environment (re. J.D. Foley)

How would other interface projects like Chiron fit into this schema?
Are there any other examples?  Does anyone have experience  with TAE Plus?

[Hix90]  Deborah Hix, Generations of User-Interface Management Systems,
	 IEEE Software, Sept. 1990
 
Thanks in advance, Gail.

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