Tony Cabello-Miguel, Oscar Fernández-Barracel, and Oscar García-Panyella. 2004. iGlue.v3: an electronics metaphor for multimedia technologies integration. In Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA '04). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 644-651. DOI=10.1145/1027527.1027676 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1027527.1027676 "The iGlue Project is a set of tools meant for the integration of different multimedia technologies in creative applications like multimedia installations or live audiovisual shows. Inspired by the way of working used in electronics, similar concepts are developed in a visual environment to interactively build applications out of components, wires and circuits. This approach enhances the entire R&D workflow, providing for application prototyping, empirical experimentation, collaborative work, software recycling and simplified maintenance."

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