PRELIM Flashcards
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Real Cracker
Individual and isolated regions within a display that can be selected to invoke an action.
Buttons
The area of work under study, e.g. graphic design.
domain
In indirect manipulation system, the user interacts with an artificial world inside the computer.
Direct manipulation
recruited expectation
Virtual Cracker
Set of options displayed on the screen.
Menus
Way of expressing instructions to the computer directly.
Command line interface
Information windows that pop up to inform of an important event or request information.
Dialog Boxes
Windows are areas of the screen that behave as if they were independent terminals in their own right.
True
Ultimately in terms of operations or actions, e.g. select fill tool, click over triangle.
task
cultural connotations
Real Cracker
If you don’t know the system well you may not even formulate the right goal, this is called slips.
Mistake
Primarily for data entry or data retrieval.
Form-fills
is a simple mechanism for providing input to an application in a specific domain.
Question and answer dialog
Ergonomics is traditionally the study of the physical characteristics of the interaction.
True
