Artificial Vision

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Visual Languages for Tele-action Objects

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Generalized icons

13.3 Spatial/temporal operators

13.4 Representation of meaning for generalized icons.

13.5 The syntactic aspect of multidimensional language for tele-action objects.

13.6 The dynamic aspect of multidimensional language for tele-action objects

13.7 The active index and tele-action objects

13.8 BookMan – an application example

13.9 Conclusion

13.1 INTRODUCTION

Visual languages are receiving increased attention as we move into the multimedia age, because the common user needs new ways to deal with multimedia information directly (S.K. Chang et al., 1995). A graphical user interface (GUI) can display only a limited number of icons simultaneously without cluttering ...