“Interaction with a color computer graphics system for archaeological sites” by Badler and Badler
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Title:
- Interaction with a color computer graphics system for archaeological sites
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Abstract:
Our goal was to design and implement an interactive system using a color video display to assist an archaeologist in the task of analyzing the spatial distribution of various objects from an excavated site. The existing system configuration required controlling the display over a slow communications line from the mainframe CPU, and there was little local intelligence in the minicomputer display driver. The user of the system was expected to be computer-naive. Certain design principals evolved which should be applicable to graphical database query systems in other domains.
References:
1. Badler, Norman and Badler, Virginia. SITE: A color computer graphics system for the display of archaeological sites and artifacts. Dept. of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Technical Report No. 77-76, (August 1977).
2. Badler, Virginia and Badler, Norman. A new analysis of Thermi. Archaeological Institute of America, 79th Annual Conference Abstracts, Atlanta (December 1977), 38.
3. Miller, Lawrence H. A study in man-machine interaction. AFIPS Conference Proceedings, Vol. 46 (1977), AFIPS Press, Montvale, N.J., 409-421.
4. Status Report of the Graphic Standards Planning Committee of ACM/SIGGRAPH, Computer Graphics 11, 4 (Fall 1977).
5. Wheeler, Sir Mortimer. Archaeology from the Earth. Penguin Books, Baltimore, 1966.
