Visual construction of highly interactive applications

Abstract

This paper presents Whizz'Ed, an experimental tool for construction of highly interactive or animated applications. Whizz'Ed makes it possible to visually describe by direct manipulation the behaviour of graphical objects and their interrelations. It provides elementary bricks that encapsulate basic interactive behaviours. Whizz'Ed aims at allowing designers to build visual programs in which the control structure is described using data-flows. The flow graph can be structured in order to reuse complex behaviours, thus allowing the designer to create new reusable bricks at design time. Whizz'Ed provide designers with a visual environment that can be used for building user interfaces as well as for database visualization.