Design of a graphical user interface for a multimedia DBMS: query management facility
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Authors
Peabody, Charles B.
Subjects
GUI
MDBMS
Graphical query facility
Retrieval
Multimedia Database Management System
User interface
MDBMS
Graphical query facility
Retrieval
Multimedia Database Management System
User interface
Advisors
Lum, Vincent Y.
Wu, C. Thomas
Date of Issue
1991-09
Date
September 1991
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
This thesis presents criteria and necessary features by which to evaluate and design a good graphical user interface (GUI) for a Multimedia Database Management System (MDBMS). This material is also applicable to a traditional DBMS. Included in the thesis is the specifications for a Query Management Facility (QMF) for a MDMBS user interface. The nature and benefits of the GUI environment, requires that we consider GUI concepts early in the user interface conceptualization and design. In today's DBMS user interfaces, these GUI concepts are for the most part applied as an after-thought. This is a critical mistake. Early incorporation of GUI capabilities along with established user interface principles results in a superior user interface. The QMF presented herein is one such interface. It combines the ideas of simple operations and data flow to allow the user to specify his query. Additional concepts used include: picture of the database schema, picture of the developing query, selectable objects, direct manipulation, piecemeal query specification, display of immediate results and predefined joins. The resulting QMF is simple to use and enables the flexible expression of the simple as well as the complex database query.
Type
Thesis
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Department of Computer Science
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
Format
130 p.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.