Open AccessBook
User interface
Robert J. K. Jacob
- pp 243-252
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
A user interface is that portion of an interactive computer system that communicates with the user as mentioned in this paper. User interfaces include any aspect of the system that is visible to the user, such as a keyboard, mouse, or display.Abstract:
A user interface is that portion of an interactive computer system that communicates with the user. Design of the user interface includes any aspect of the system that is visible to the user. Once, all computer users were specialists in computing, and interfaces consisted of jumper wires in patch boards, punched cards (q.v.) prepared offline, and batch printouts. Today a wide range of nonspecialists use computers, and keyboards, mice, and graphical displays are the most common interface hardware. The user interface is becoming a larger and larger portion of the software in a computer system--and a more important portion, as broader groups of people use computers. As computers become more powerful, the critical bottleneck in applying computer-based systems to solve problems is more often in the user interface rather than in the computer hardware or software.read more
Citations
More filters
Patent
Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for displaying and using menus
Gary Ian Butcher,Christopher Patrick Foss,Raymond S. Sepulveda,Alexander J Perry,Patrick L. Coffman,Aram David Kudurshian,Cedric Bray,Usama M. Hajj +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an electronic device displays, on a display, a user interface that includes one or more user interface elements; and detects a press input by a contact on a touch-sensitive surface at a location that corresponds to a respective user interface element.
Patent
Method and apparatus for displaying interactive preview information in a location-based user interface
TL;DR: In this article, an approach for displaying interactive preview information in a location-based user interface is presented, where a content mapping platform determines to render, at a device, a user interface for a locationbased service based, at least in part, on a field of view.
Patent
System and method for making requests on behalf of a mobile device based on atomic processes for mobile network traffic relief
TL;DR: In this paper, a system and method for making requests on behalf of a mobile device based on atomic processes for mobile network traffic relief are disclosed, which can be implemented on a system.
Patent
Touch gestures for text-entry operations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe techniques for providing a user of a computing device with the ability to perform text-entry operations (e.g., using a touch screen) on a mobile computing device.
Patent
Method and system for viewing stacked screen displays using gestures
Sanjiv Sirpal,Brett Faulk,Paul E. Reeves,Alexander de Paz,Rodney Wayne Schrock,John Steven Visosky,Eric Freedman,Jared L. Ficklin,Denise Burton,Misty Cripps,Gregg Wygonik +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, an intuitive technique for inputting user gestures into a handheld computing device is disclosed allowing a user to better manipulate different types of screen display presentations, such as desktops and application windows, when performing tasks thereon, wherein a window stack for application windows and/or desktops can be navigated and sequentially displayed according to the window stack ordering.
References
More filters
Book
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction
TL;DR: The Sixth Edition of Designing the User Interface provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date introduction to the dynamic field of human-computer interaction and user experience (UX) design.
Journal ArticleDOI
Direct Manipulation: A Step Beyond Programming Languages
TL;DR: As I talked with enthusiasts and examined the systems they used, I began to develop a model of the features that produced such delight, and the central ideas seemed to be visibility of the object of interest; rapid, reversible, incremental actions; and replacement of complex command language syntax by direct manipulation of the objects of interest.
Journal ArticleDOI
Direct manipulation interfaces
TL;DR: A cognitive account of both the advantages and disadvantages of direct manipulation interfaces is sought and two underlying phenomena that give rise to the feeling of directness of manipulation are identified.
Related Papers (5)
Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics
Steven P. Jobs,Scott Forstall,Greg Christie,Stephen O. Lemay,Scott Herz,Os Marcel Van,Bas Ording,Gregory Novick,Wayne Carl Westerman,Imran Chaudhri,Patrick L. Coffman,Kenneth Kocienda,Nitin Ganatra,Jeremy Wyld,Jeffrey Bush,Freddy Allen Anzures,Michael Matas,Paul D. Marcos,Charles J. Pisula,Virgil Scott King,Chris Blumenberg,Francisco Ryan Tolmasky,Richard Williamson,Andre M.J. Boule,Henri C. Lamiraux +24 more