The Look and Feel of Direct Manipulation

CRC Press eBooks, 2000

As information environments grow in complexity, we yearn for simple interfaces that streamline human cognition and effort. Users need to perform complex operations on thousands of objects. Human attention and available screen real estate are constrained. We develop a new fluid interface component for the visualization and adjustment of values while authoring, the In-Context Slider, which reduces physical effort and demand on attention by using fluid mouse gestures and in-context interaction. We hypothesize that such an interface will make adjusting values easier for the user. We evaluated the In-Context Slider as an affordance for adjusting values of interest in text and images, compared with a more typical interface. Participants performed faster with the In-Context Slider. They found the new interface easier to use and more natural for expressing interest. We then integrated the In-Context Slider in the information composition platform, combinFormation. Participants experienced the In-Context Slider as easier to use while developing collections to answer openended information discovery questions. This research is relevant for many applications in which users provide ratings, such as recommender systems, as well as for others in which users' adjustment of values on concurrently displayed objects is integrated with extensive interactive functionality.

1992

This talk was held in the context of an internal research seminar on the topic of "Icons/Screens". It was preceded by another presentation (to which the conclusion refers) on Byzantine icons. Many concepts within this text are simplified and exposed with the sole purpose of being discussed in a seminar context.

2003

Visual design in general is the arrangement of information items (eg, text, images, diagrams, pictures, tables) in such a way that the resulting product is visually attractive, perceptive, and easily understandable. Visual design issues are raised in many domains of human activity such as user interface design, documentation development, presentation design, and graphic layout. This chapter describes techniques coming from traditional visual design and discusses them in the context of user interface design.

THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INDONESIAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY ICICS 2021: Toward a Meaningful Society

In the epoch of digital media, graphic design has become an important part in the process of creating interactive platforms for work and entertainment. To a great extent, design defines the way in which the user will communicate in the virtual environment. If the visual hierarchy in the texts, shapes and colours is not implemented, then dealing even with the most up-to-date software may become challenging. The modern human is overwhelmed with information and he instinctively seeks for the most direct way to reach his goal. Each graphic element that is not in its designated place is a reason to disrupt the fluent dealing with the interface and results accordingly in bad usability. It is noticed that many developers of such type of platforms perceive interactive and print design as overlapping areas. Although their origin, principles and components are common, the differences between them in terms of technical and user elements are considerable, which influences also the creative process. The purpose of the current article is to define the areas of differences between print and interactive design. Systematizing them will be useful for optimizing the graphic design for interactive interfaces, achieving intuitive navigation, user comfort and accessibility for the content.

Proper arrangement of the elements on the user screen have Andhra Pradesh helped the designers to make the screen look good and. Several techniques for visualization emphasize the arrangement and ordering of the screen elements based on particular criteria for best appearance of the screen. This paper investigates few significant visualization techniques in various web user interfaces and showcases the results for better understanding and their presence.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007

Studies on the effect of text width on readability have encouraged the use of fixed text-width web/electronic text design. The drawback of this type of design is the loss of users' interactivity with regard to text modification. In this paper, we investigate the web design of the world's top 100 websites and present an alternative interactive user interface for text display.

Crew Interface Analysis: Selected Articles on Space Human Factors Research, 1987-1991, 1993

To survive and succeed in the world, people have to comprehend both diverse natural sources of information, such as landscapes, weather conditions, and animal sounds, and human-created information artifacts such as pictorial representations(ie, graphics) and text. Researchers have developed theories and models that describe how people comprehend text (for example, see [8]), but have largely ignored graphics. However, an increasing amount of information is provided to people by means of graphics, as can be seen in any ...

Computers and Composition, 2005

Interface design for the Web has received less attention in composition and rhetoric than other areas of computer-based communication. In this paper, we introduce the term dynamic interfaces to refer to developments in single screen environments. We see that kinetic interface design involves movement in the interface, through content and via media types. We relate this to a case the BallectroWeb that we developed to report on an educational research project with choreography students. We annotate and discuss this interface and its design, composition and communicability. We suggest that developments in dynamic interfaces may be read as part of an ongoing shift from Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) generated web 'pages' to emergent and shifting screen spaces in which movement is significant. We refer to the software Macromedia Flash and close by suggesting some of the main features of dynamic interfaces.

1992

Designers seeking to improve human-computer interfaces, particularly those concerned with programming environments, often assume that "graphics" will always result in an improvement over "text." Such claims are especially difficult to assess, given that people have used the terms "text" and "graphics" in different and conflicting ways throughout the literature. This paper suggests a preliminary, consistent terminology for discussing "graphical interfaces" (including so called "visual programming systems") to highlight some of the issues involved in using "graphics" in notations and interfaces. It discusses evidence from empirical studies showing that using "graphics" doesn't necessarily lead to improvement and may introduce its own problems. The paper concludes with a discussion of the successful integration of "graphics" and "text."