Pictures as input Data

摘要

This ppaer suggets that there exists a large class of inherently graphical applications that could sue pictures as their primary input data i nany other format and thus need to store inptu datain any other format and thus eliminate the need to do conversions between input data and a graphical representation .Since the graphical representation is the only representation of the data, such aplications allow users to edit an application's input data by manipulating pictures in a drawing editor. Such an environment would the ideal for users of pen-based machines since data would not have to be entered via a keyboard, instead a gesture based drawing editor oculd be used. CUPID, which is a tool for creating USer-Interfaces that use Pictures as Input Data, is resented.