marina@ai.toronto.edu (Marina Haloulos) (09/19/89)
FLASH ANNOUNCEMENT (GB = Gailbraith Building, 35 St. George Street) ------------------------------------------------------------- GRAPHICS AND INTERACTION SEMINAR GB119, at 2:00 p.m., Thursday 21 September 1989 Dr. Douglas Seeley South Australian Institute of Technology, Adelaide "A Visually-Programmed Animation System for Models of Manufacturing" Factory-Mate is a modelling and animation system for discrete manufacturing. Models are constructed with a direct manipulation interface, run as animations and analyzed graphically. It was rapidly prototyped and incrementally evolved using the object-oriented language C++. The claims of rapid production, easily customizable and robust code as the result of object-oriented development have been positively demonstrated by this system. Results from beta test sites suggest that animation could become a new tool for the communication of management information. Some issues regarding user interface design and visual programming will be raised. Finally, some relationships to the specification of distributed real-time systems will be discussed.