Amulet Papers

Table of Contents:

• Main Amulet reference
• Documentation for Amulet
• Overviews of all of Amulet
• Network Support in Amulet
• Animation in Amulet
• Command objects in Amulet and Scripting
• Sound in Amulet
• Gilt Interface Builder for Amulet
• Debugging in Amulet
• Objects and Constraints in Amulet
• Silk, interactive sketching tool
• Gamut, interactive tool to create programs by demonstration
• Articles about Human-Computer Interaction in General

• Papers by others describing systems built using Amulet

The main reference for Amulet:

Documentation for Amulet:

• Documentation for Amulet V3.0.
• The changes and improvements between version 2 and 3 of Amulet.

• The Amulet Environment: New Models for Effective User Interface Software Development by Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, Robert C. Miller, Alan S. Ferrency, Andrew Faulring, Bruce D. Kyle, Andrew Mickish, Alex Klimovitski and Patrick Doane. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 23, no. 6. June, 1997. pp. 347-365. postscript
  Long overview of all of Amulet.

• The Amulet Prototype-Instance Framework, by Brad A. Myers, Rich McDaniel, and Rob Miller, Object-Oriented Application Frameworks, vol. 3, edited by Mohamed Fayad and Douglas C. Schmidt. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999. To appear. postscript acrobat (pdf)

• The Amulet User Interface Development Environment (video abstract), by Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, Robert C. Miller, Alan Ferrency, Ellen Borison, CHI'97 Conference Companion: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Atlanta, GA. March 22-27, 1997. pp. 214-215. html
  Short overview of all of Amulet.

• The Amulet Environment: New Models for Effective User Interface Software Development by Brad A. Myers, Rich McDaniel, Rob Miller, Alan Ferrency, Patrick Doane, Andrew Faulring, Ellen Borison, Andy Mickish, and Alex Klimovitski. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report CMU-CS-96-189 and Human Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report CMU-HCII-96-104, November, 1996. Postscript file.
  Long overview of all of Amulet. Revised version appears in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

• The Amulet User Interface Development Environment. Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, Robert C. Miller, Alan Ferrency, Ellen Borison, Andrew Faulring, Andy Mickish, Patrick Doane, and Alex Klimovitski, 8 minute video. Technical Video Program of the CHI'97 conference. ACM, 0-89791-876-2. Video overview of all of Amulet.

• The Design for the Amulet User Interface Toolkit
  An eight page paper providing an overview of Amulet presented at the Human-Computer Interaction Consortium meeting, February, 1996. postscript.
  (The previous year's (1995) presentation is also available as: a plain text abstract or as a postscript file).

• One hour talk about Amulet, from March, 1996. Available as a PowerPoint binary file, or a poor-quality translation into pictures.

• One-page description of the Special Interest Group meeting about Amulet presented CHI'96. Reference: Brad A. Myers. "The Amulet User Interface Development Environment," CHI'96 Conference Companion: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. April 13-18, 1996. p. 327.

• CHI'95 Special Interest Group meeting about Amulet and Garnet.

• Easily Programmable Shared Objects For Peer-To-Peer Distributed Applications. John Huebner and Brad A. Myers. Submitted for Publication.
  HTML (missing the pictures) or Postscript or Adobe Acrobat (pdf).

• Easily Adding Animations to Interfaces Using Constraints. Brad A. Myers, Robert C. Miller, Rich McDaniel, and Alan Ferrency. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'96 November 6-8, 1996. Seattle, WA. pp. 119-128.
  New features of Amulet that support animations. These features are documented in the V3 reference manual.
  Postscript (Postscript seems to crash gv, but prints OK).

• Reusable Hierarchical Command Objects. Brad A. Myers and David Kosbie. CHI'96: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 13-18, 1996. pp. 260-267. html and Postscript
• Scripting Graphical Applications by Demonstration. Brad A. Myers. Proceedings CHI'98: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Los Angeles, CA, April 18-23, 1998. To appear. Adobe Acrobat (pdf) and Postscript

• Debugging Interactive Applications. Brad A. Myers, Alan Ferrency, Rich McDaniel and Roger Dannenberg. Submitted for publication. Postscript file. The features of Version 2.0 of Amulet that support debugging, including the Inspector (all of which are available in the current release).

• Easily Adding Sound Output to Interfaces. Brad A. Myers and Kenneth A. Strickland. Submitted for publication. Postscript file or Acrobat (pdf) file.

• Defining and Editing Constraints Graphically by Treating Constraints as Objects. Ilhwan Kwon and Brad A. Myers. Submitted for publication. Postscript file

• Amulet's Dynamic And Flexible Prototype-Instance Object And Constraint System In C++. Rich McDaniel and Brad A. Myers. Postscript file. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report, no. CMU-CS-95-176 and Human Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report CMU-HCII-95-104. July, 1995. Overview of the object and constraint levels of Amulet. Submitted for publication.
• Our Experience with Prototype-Instance Object-Oriented Programming in Amulet and Garnet. Brad A. Myers, Rich McDaniel, Rob Miller, Brad Vander Zanden, Dario Giuse, David Kosbie, and Andrew Mickish.  Interfaces, Issue No. 39 (August 1998), ISSN: 1351-119X. A Publication of the British HCI Group. pp. 4-9.
• Lessons Learned About One-Way, Dataflow Constraints in the Garnet and Amulet Graphical Toolkits. Bradley T. Vander Zanden, Richard Halterman, Brad A. Myers, Rich McDaniel, Rob Miller, Pedro Szekely, Dario Giuse, and David Kosbie. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS). To appear. Postscript file or PDF file.
• Using Model Dataflow Graphs to Reduce the Storage Requirements of Constraints. Bradley T. Vander Zanden and Richard Halterman. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Sept, 2001. To appear. Postscript file or PDF file.

• Sketching Storyboards to Illustrate Interface Behaviors, James A. Landay and Brad A. Myers. CHI'96 Conference Companion: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. April 13-18, 1996. pp. 193-194. Abstract Postscript HTML
• SILK: Sketching Interfaces Like Krazy. James A. Landay. CHI'96 Video Review. Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 14-18, 1996. Described in: CHI'96 Conference Companion: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. April 13-18, 1996. pp. 398-399.
• Just Draw It! Programming by Sketching Storyboards. James A. Landay and Brad A. Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, Human-Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report CMU-HCII-95-106 and School of Computer Science Technical Report CMU-CS-95-199, November 1995. Abstract, Postscript, HTML
• Interactive Sketching for the Early Stages of User Interface Design. James A. Landay and Brad A. Myers, Proceedings of CHI '95: Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, CO, May 1995, pp. 43-50. (also published as Carnegie Mellon University, Human-Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report, CMU-HCII-94-104, July 22, 1994.) Abstract Postscript HTML
• Interactive Sketching for User Interface Design. James A. Landay, Adjunct Proceedings of CHI '95: Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, CO, May 1995, pp. 63-64. Abstract, Postscript, HTML

Gamut, interactive tool to create programs by demonstration

• Gamut: Creating Complete Applications Using Only Programming-by-Demonstration. Richard G. McDaniel and Brad A. Myers postscript Submitted for publication.
• Getting More Out Of Programming-By-Demonstration, Richard G. McDaniel and Brad A. Myers, postscript Proceedings CHI'99: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Pittsburgh, PA, May 15-20, 1999. To appear.
• Building Applications Using Only Demonstration, Richard G. McDaniel and Brad A. Myers. IUI'98: 1998 International Conference On Intelligent User Interfaces, January 6-9, 1998, San Francisco, CA. pp. 109-116. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~richm/papers/iui98.ps
• Improving Demonstration Using Better Interaction Techniques Richard G. McDaniel and Brad A. Myers. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report CMU-CS-97-103 and Human Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report CMU-HCII-97-100, January, 1997. Postscript
• Using Better Communication To Improve Programming-by-Demonstration. Richard McDaniel. Acquisition Learning & Demonstration: Automating Tasks for Users, Papers from the 1996 AAAI Symposium, Stanford, CA. Technical Report SS-96-02, pp. 73-77 Postscript
• Improving Communication in Programming-by-Demonstration Richard McDaniel. CHI'96: Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference Companion, (Doctoral Consortium presentation). Vancouver, BC, Canada. April 14-18, 1996. pp. 55-56. Postscript html

Articles about Human-Computer Interaction in General

• Brad Myers, Scott E. Hudson, and Randy Pausch, "Past, Present and Future of User Interface Software Tools," ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, To Appear in the Special Millennium Issue. Available as Postscript or Acrobat.
• Using Benchmarks to Teach and Evaluate User Interface Tools. Brad A. Myers, Neal Altman, Khalil Amiri, Matthew Centurion, Fay Chang, Chienhao Chen, Herb Derby, John Huebner, Rich Kaylor, Ralph Melton, Robert O'Callahan, Matthew Tarpy, Konur Unyelioglu, Zhenyu Wang, and Randon Warner. Submitted for publication.
  postscript file (Note: postscript prints OK, and works in gs but not in gv for some reason.)
• A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology. Brad A. Myers. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report CMU-CS-96-163 and Human Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report CMU-HCII-96-103, December, 1996. html file or postscript file

Papers by others describing systems built using Amulet

• Chii Meng, Xiaoyang Mao, Atsumi Imamiya, "Visualization of Selective Undo/Redo History," Meeting record of the Special Interest Group on Human Interface, Information Processing Society of Japan, HI-71, pp. 15-22.
• Nenad Medvidovic and Richard N. Taylor, ``Reuse of Off-the-Shelf Constraint Solvers in C2-Style Architectures.'' June, 1996. University of California at Irvine Computer Science Technical Report Number UCI-ICS-96-28. July, 1996. Postscript

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