Introduction To The Special Session On Visual Languages For Human-to-human Communication

The world-wide connectivity of the Internet and the high-quality graphical capabilities of today's personal computers are fostering a growth of new software that permits people to communicate with others in a variety of visual ways. The papers in this session illustrate several examples of these approaches. In some cases the focus of the communication is on the computational properties of objects or systems. In other cases, the communication is not about computation, but the computer technology supports that communication.