Flow As First Class Citizens in Computing
It is only in recent times that flows have been represented as first class data items to build the web technology e.g. JSF flows or Spring Web Flows. Also the sense of flow and sense of focus has been proposed as two different senses in our brain, This is an example of how the science of visual analytics can bring sense and richness in our understanding and control of complex process in our computation and the processes in our brain.
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