Interface Types

Question 1

1980’s interface types

Answer 1

Command line and TUI

Question 2

1990’s interface types

Answer 2

Web, pen, gesture, appliance interfaces

Question 3

2000’s interface types

Answer 3

Mobile, wearable, AR/MR (mixed reality)

Question 4

WIMP

Answer 4

Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointing device

Question 5

Windows

Answer 5

Invented to overcome physical restraints of a display
Enable more information to be viewed

Question 6

Icons

Answer 6

Map representations to what they are referring to

Question 7

Similarity

Answer 7

Pictures of what a function represents - a file to represent a file

Question 8

Analogy

Answer 8

Picture of scissors to represent ‘cut’

Question 9

Arbitrary

Answer 9

Picture of an ‘X’ to represent ‘delete’

Question 10

Menus

Answer 10

Lists of options that can be scrolled and selected

Question 11

Pointing device

Answer 11

A pointer as the input to interact with the GUI

Question 12

Tangible UI (TUI)

Answer 12

Physical objects coupled with digital information - allows user to manipulate objects to control interface

Question 13

Natural User Interfaces

Answer 13

Interaction is direct and consistent with natural behaviour