Exploiting Visualization and Direct Manipulation to Make Parallel Tools More Communicative

Parallel tools rely on graphical techniques to improve the quality of user interaction. In this paper, we explore how visualization and direct manipulation can be exploited in parallel tools, in order to improve the naturalness with which the user interacts with a prallel tool.

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