Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: I n t e r f a c e sUser interface software tools have become highly specialized for today's state of the art GUI or desktop style or WIMP (window-icon-menu-pointer) interfaces.As nextgeneration interaction styles such as virtual environments (called "non-WIMP") emerge, today's user interface description languages and software systems will be less applicable, and a new generation of tools will be needed.Advances in user interface design and technology have been outpacing advances in models, languages, and user interface software tools.The result is that, today: previous generation command language interfaces can now be specified and implemented very effectively; current generation direct manipulation or WIMP interfaces are now moderately well served by user interface software tools; and the emerging generation of non-WIMP interfaces is hardly handled.Most of today's examples of non-WIMP inter-9 i n t e r a c t i o n s . . .j u l y + a u g u s t 1 9 9 9 David Wasserman ©1997 Artville, LLC The following 2 abstracts are from the recent issue of ACM's Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (ToCHI).They are included here to alert interactions' readers to what research is currently being done in the field of Computer Human Interaction.
Source: interactions
Author: Jennifer Bruer
Language: English
Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4256202182