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ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) archive
Volume 4 , Issue 1 (January 1986) table of contents

Pages: 24 - 41

Year of Publication: 1986

ISSN:1046-8188

Authors

James Donahue	Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
Jennifer Widom	Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The “Whiteboards” system is intended to be an electronic equivalent of the whiteboards and corkboards that we have in our offices. A Whiteboard database has similar qualities of storing disparate collections of data and saving their spatial location in a window to help with organization. A Whiteboard database can contain references to arbitrary entities: text files, notes, programs, tools, pictures, etc. Whiteboards runs as an application in the Cedar programming environment developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

REFERENCES

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	1	BEACh, R. J. Experience with the Cedar programming environment for computer graphics research. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 84 (Ottawa, Canada, June). Canadian Information Processing Society, 1984.
	2	BROWN, M., KOLLING, K., AND TAFT, E. The Alpine file system. Report CSL-84-4, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, Calif., Oct. 1984.
	3	CATTELL, R. G. G. Design and implementation of a relationship-entity-datum data model. Report CSL-83-4, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, Calif., May 1983.
	4	James Donahue, Integration mechanisms in Cedar, Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 85 symposium on Language issues in programming environments, p.245-251, June 25-28, 1985, Seattle, Washington, United States
	5	Christopher F. Herot, Spatial management of data, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), v.5 n.4, p.493-513, Dec. 1980 [doi>10.1145/320610.320648]
	6	Daniel C. Swinehart , Polle T. Zellweger , Robert B. Hagmann, The structure of Cedar, Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 85 symposium on Language issues in programming environments, p.230-244, June 25-28, 1985, Seattle, Washington, United States
	7	TEITELMAN, W. A tour through Cedar. IEEE Softw. 1, 2 (April, 1984), 44-73.

CITED BY 7

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	M. Stefik , D. G. Bobrow , G. Foster , S. Lanning , D. Tatar, WYSIWIS revised: early experiences with multiuser interfaces, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), v.5 n.2, p.147-167, April 1987
	D. Austin Henderson, Jr. , Stuart Card, Rooms: the use of multiple virtual workspaces to reduce space contention in a window-based graphical user interface, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), v.5 n.3, p.211-243, July 1986
	Irene Greif , Sunil Sarin, Data sharing in group work, Proceedings of the 1986 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work, December 03-05, 1986, Austin, Texas
	M. Stefik , D. G. Bobrow , S. Lanning , D. Tatar , G. Foster, WYSIWIS revised: early experiences with multi-user interfaces, Proceedings of the 1986 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work, December 03-05, 1986, Austin, Texas
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INDEX TERMS

Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.6 Programming Environments

Nouns: CEDAR

H. Information Systems
H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
H.1.2 User/Machine Systems
Subjects: Human factors
H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Management

REVIEW

"Mark Robbin Brown : Reviewer"

The Cedar Whiteboards program is essentially a menu package, providing a way of organizing text and programs as a network that a user browses by pointing. The Whiteboard screen can contain a lot of text, and the program lets the screen designer more...

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Jennifer Widom: colleagues

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