TR004: User Interfaces for Structural Engineering Relational Databases

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Abstract: The needs of engineers in their interaction with engineering data bases are very different from those of their counterparts in the business world. Business data base management system interfaces typically provide only a single mode of textual communication, usually a structured query language. However, in an ideal engineering data base interface, an engineer would be able to define constraints, give examples, point at parts of pictures, and (sometimes) use several modes of communication simultaneously. The paper presents an example from an engineering design application to show how a traditional query language can be enhanced to accommodate the engineering needs. The paper further describes a conceptual approach for multimodal engineering data base interface combining multipurpose graphics, an engineering query language, and other interface methodologies in an engineering workstation environment.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 1988

Author	Howard, H. Craig
Author	Howard, Cynthia Stotts

Subject	CIFE
Subject	Center for Integrated Facility Engineering
Subject	Stanford University
Subject	Database Management
Subject	User Interfaces
Genre	Technical report

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/zf194xv2436

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Preferred Citation: Howard, H. Craig and Howard, Cynthia Stotts. (1988). TR004: User Interfaces for Structural Engineering Relational Databases. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/zf194xv2436

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