The Design for the Amulet User Interface Toolkit

Brad A. Myers, Rich McDaniel,
Andrew Mickish, Alex Klimovitski

January 1995

Human Computer Interaction Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA  15213

http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/Groups/amulet/amulet-home.html

ABSTRACT

Amulet is a new user interface software environment for C++ to support
future user interface software research.  This environment, which will
be portable across X/11, Microsoft Windows, and the Macintosh, is
designed to be very flexible: parts can be replaced and new
technologies and widgets can be easily created and evaluated.
Built-in support will be provided for direct manipulation, multi-font
text editing, gesture recognition, speech recognition, 2-D and 3-D
animations, visualizations including maps and large data sets,
world-wide-web browsing and editing, and multiple people interacting
with the system at the same time (CSCW).  Another goal is to be useful
for students, which means that Amulet must be easy to learn.  Finally,
the system will provide sufficient performance, robustness and
documentation so it will be useful for general user interface
developers.

Keywords: User Interface Software, User Interface Management Systems, Toolkits.