Roger King
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» 2006 «
Davies, Stephen, Allen, Scotty, Raphaelson, Jon, Meng, Emil, Engleman, Jake, King, Roger and Lewis, Clayton H. (2006): Popcorn: the personal knowledge base. In: Proceedings of DIS06: Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, & Techniques 2006. pp. 150-159. Available online
“People often use powerful tools to manage the documents they encounter, but very rarely to store the mental knowledge they glean from those documents. Popcorn is a personal knowledge base: an experimental interface and database designed to store and retrieve a user's accumulated personal knowledge. It aims to let the user represent information in a way that corresponds more naturally to their mental conceptions than simply text would, in part by making heavy use of transclusion: sharing items among multiple contexts. This paper describes the design rationale for the system, contrasting it with related efforts, and presents the results of deploying it to a group of volunteers who used it in real-world settings. The results, while revealing some limitations in the tool, and some challenges in coping with knowledge reorganization, suggest that the analysis underlying the design is useful, and that Popcorn is a powerful and effective tool for a variety of intellectual work.”
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» 2000 «
Anderson, Kenneth M., Och, Christian, King, Roger and Osborne, Richard M. (2000): Integrating Infrastructure: Enabling Large-Scale Client Integration. In: Hypertext 00 - Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia May 30 - June 03, 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA. pp. 57-66. Available online
» 1994 «
Merz, Ulla and King, Roger (1994): DIRECT: A Query Facility for Multiple Databases. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 12 (4) pp. 339-359
“The subject of this research project is the architecture and design of a multidatabase query facility. These databases contain structured data, typical for business applications. Problems addressed are: presenting a uniform interface for retrieving data from multiple databases, providing autonomy for the component databases, and defining an architecture for semantic services. DIRECT is a query facility for heterogeneous databases. The databases and their definitions can differ in their data models, names, types, and encoded values. Instead of creating a global schema, descriptions of different databases are allowed to coexist. A multidatabase query language provides a uniform interface for retrieving data from different databases. DIRECT has been exercised with operational databases that are part of an automated business system.”
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» 1993 «
King, Roger and Novak, Michael (1993): Designing Database Interfaces with DBface. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 11 (2) pp. 105-132
“DBface is a toolkit for designing interfaces to object-oriented databases. It provides users with a set of tools for building custom interfaces with minimal programming. This is accomplished by combining techniques from User Interface Management Systems (UIMS) with a built-in knowledge about the specific kinds of techniques used by object-oriented databases. DBface allows users to create graphical constructs and interactive techniques by taking advantage of an object-oriented database environment and tools. Not only can database tools be used for creating an interface, but information about the interface being built is stored within a database schema and is syntactically consistent with all other schema information. Thus, an interface can deal with data and schema information, including information about another interface. This allows for easy reusability of graphical constructs such as data representations.”
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» 1991 «
Merz, Ulla and King, Roger (1991): A Query Facility for Schema Integration. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 1991. pp. 448-454.
“The user interface design and evaluation of an interactive schema integration tool is presented. The tool consists of a browser of the database schemas and a query facility to specify the required data and their definitions. Results from evaluating the user interface suggest that a query facility should provide functions that match the user's preferred query writing strategy and a browser of the data definitions has to provide different visual representations and search strategies to assist the user in interpreting the meaning of the data.”
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» 1989 «
Hoppe, H. U., King, Roger, Schiele, Franz and Tissen, Anne (1989): "Cognitive User Interface" Laboratory, GMD - IPSI. In: Bice, Ken and Lewis, Clayton H. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 89 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 30 - June 4, 1989, Austin, Texas. pp. 307-308.
» 1988 «
Hudson, Scott E. and King, Roger (1988): Semantic Feedback in the Higgens UIMS. In IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 14 (8) pp. 1188-1206
» 1987 «
Smolensky, Paul, Bell, Brigham, Fox, Barbara, King, Roger and Lewis, Clayton H. (1987): Constraint-Based Hypertext for Argumentation. In: Weiss, Stephen and Schwartz, Mayer (eds.) Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 87 Conference November 13-15, 1987, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. pp. 215-245.
“In this paper we describe a hypertext system we are developing for the support of reasoned argumentation: the EUCLID project. We use the project to address two general problems arising with hypertext: the problems of controlling user/document interaction, and the problem of controlling the screen. We suggest that guiding users' interaction with hypertext is difficult because of the unique form of discourse that hypertext represents, and that structuring user/document interaction can be achieved through specializing to a particular type of material and designing the hypertext system to respect the particular discourse structure characteristic of that material. EUCLID's design is tuned to the structure of reasoned discourse. The problem of screen management in EUCLID is a serious one, because our presentation of complex arguments requires mapping the complex logical relations between parts of realistic arguments onto complex spatial relations between items in the display. We describe a general system we are developing which provides this high degree of control for hypertext screen management. This system represents a constraint-based approach to hypertext, in which the items from the underlying database that are to be displayed may each contribute a number of constraints on the layout; a general constraint-satisfier then computes a screen layout that simultaneously satisfies these constraints. Each time an item is to be added to or deleted from the screen, the constraint set is adjusted and the screen layout is recomputed; thus the spatial relationships on the screen provide at all times a veridical representation of the underlying relations between displayed database items. This kind of strong screen control is demanded by hypertext applications which, like ours, are fine grained: the number of nodes and links being displayed number in the hundreds.”
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» 1986 «
Hudson, Scott E. and King, Roger (1986): A Generator of Direct Manipulation Office Systems. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 4 (2) pp. 132-163
“A system for generating direct manipulation office systems is described. In these systems, the user directly manipulates graphical representations of office entities instead of dealing with these entities abstractly through a command language or menu system. These systems employ a new semantic data model to describe office entities. New techniques based on attribute grammars and incremental attribute evaluation are used to implement this data model in an efficient manner. In addition, the system provides a means of generating sophisticated graphics-based user interfaces that are integrated with the underlying semantic model. Finally, the generated systems contain a general user reversal and recovery (or undo) mechanism that allows them to be much more tolerant of human errors.”
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» 1985 «
King, Roger and McLeod, Dennis (1985): A Database Design Methodology and Tool for Information Systems. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 3 (1) pp. 2-21
“A model and methodology for describing the information objects in an office information system and how such objects flow among the components of such a system are presented. The model and methodology support the specification of information objects at multiple levels of abstraction. An interactive prototype design tool based on the methodology and model has been designed and experimentally implemented.”
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King, Roger and Stanley, Carolyn (1985): Ensuring the Court Admissibility of Computer-Generated Records. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 3 (4) pp. 398-412
“An informal methodology is described for optimizing the likelihood of computer-generated records being admissible in a U.S. court of law. This methodology is intended for individuals who are converting to automated office procedures, as well as for those whose businesses are already highly computerized. However, this paper does not purport to be a formal legal guide; rather, it is intended as an overview of this issue.”
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Hudson, Scott E. and King, Roger (1985): Efficient recovery and reversal in graphical user interfaces generated by the Higgens system. In: Graphics Interface 85 May 27-31, 1985, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. pp. 151-158.
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