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From: marina@ai.toronto.edu (Marina Haloulos)
Subject: Dr. Douglas Seeley, Thursday 21 September 1989: GRAPHICS AND INTERACTI
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Date: 18 Sep 89 18:55:03 GMT

                            FLASH ANNOUNCEMENT
             (GB = Gailbraith Building, 35 St. George Street)

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                     GRAPHICS AND INTERACTION SEMINAR
              GB119, at 2:00 p.m., Thursday 21 September 1989

                            Dr. Douglas Seeley
            South Australian Institute of Technology, Adelaide

   "A Visually-Programmed Animation System for Models of Manufacturing"

Factory-Mate is a modelling and animation system for discrete
manufacturing.  Models are constructed with a direct manipulation
interface, run as animations and analyzed graphically.  It was rapidly
prototyped and incrementally evolved using the object-oriented language
C++.  The claims of rapid production, easily customizable and robust code
as the result of object-oriented development have been positively
demonstrated by this system.  Results from beta test sites suggest that
animation could become a new tool for the communication of management
information.  Some issues regarding user interface design and visual
programming will be raised.  Finally, some relationships to the
specification of distributed real-time systems will be discussed.