Workstations for Experiments IFIP WG 5.10 International Working Conference Lowell, MA, USA, July 1989

Powerful new technology has been made available to researchers by an increasingly competitive workstation market. Papers from Canada, Japan, Italy, Germany, and the U.S., to name a few of the countries represented in this volume, discuss how workstations are used in experiments and what impact this new technology will have on experiments. As usual for IFIP workshops, the emphasis in this volume is on the formulation of strategies for future research, the determination of new market areas, and the identification of new areas for workstation research. This is the first volume of a book series reporting the work of IFIP WG 5.10. The mission of this IFIP work- ing group is to promote, develop and encourage advancement of the field of computer graphics as a basic tool, as an enabling technology and as an important part of various application areas.

1. Introduction.- 1.1 The Impact of Scientific Visualization on Workstation Development.- 1.2 Issues in User Interface.- 2. Tools, Techniques and User Interfaces.- 2.1 Employing the Intelligent Interface for Scientific Discovery.- 2.2 A Mixed-Mode Man-Machine Interface for Interactive Problem Solving.- 2.3 A Graph-Based Visual Tool for Workstations.- 2.4 Temporal Issues of Animate Response.- 2.5 Applications and Comparison of Different Mathematical Methods to Compute Form Factors for “Radiosity Images”.- 2.6 Comparative Operations in Solid Modeling.- 3. High Performance and Multimedia Workstations.- 3.1 3DGRP — A High Performance Graphics System.- 3.2 An Auditory Display for Exploratory Visualization of Multidimensional Data.- 3.3 A Model for the Use of Different Sound Description Layers Within a Multimedia Environment.- 4. Experimental Workstations and Environments.- 4.1 Some Thoughts on a Computer Workstation for the Biological Sciences.- 4.2 Issues in the Design of Workstations for Psychology Experimentation.- 4.3 Protocol Toolkits for Distributed Real-Time Experimental Workstations.- 4.4 Data Analysis in a User Interface for Distributed Process Control.- 4.5 Scientific Visualization in Supercomputing Environments.- IFIP Attendance List.