05-830, User Interface Software, Spring, 1999
Lecture 2,   January 13, 1998
Copyright © 1999 - Brad Myers


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User Interface Styles;
Dimensions of User Interface Variability;
Benchmarking User Interfaces


Input Devices

Output Devices

Examples of different types of applications

Metaphors

User Interface Styles

  1. Question and answer,
  2. Single character commands and/or function keys,
  3. Command Language,
  4. Menus
  5. Forms/Dialogue Boxes
  6. Direct Manipulation
  7. WYSIWYG
    -- really is a subclass of DM, not another style
  8. Gestures
  9. Natural Language


Nielsen describes 1, 2 & 3 as "line-oriented"

1) Question and Answer:

2) Single character commands and/or function keys:

3) Command Language:

4) Menus:

5) Form Filling


WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointing Device) Interfaces include 6 and 7

6) Direct Manipulation

7) WYSIWYG:


"Non-Command" or "Next-generation" Interfaces:


8) Gestures:

9) Natural Language


Features That Might Be Included in Benchmarks

(Bold shows items not adequately covered by previousdes year's benchmarks, in my opinion.)


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