1. Graphical User Interfaces
Multimedia
Graphical User Interfaces
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2. 2. Graphical User Interface (GUI)
There are 4 major GUIs:
Iconic interfaces
Windows environments
Graphical interaction
Direct manipulation
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3. 1. Iconic Interfaces
User commands are expressed in graphical symbols, and are executed by clicking.
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4. Iconic Menu
Iconic menu offers many actions that a user can select with a click and apply to a displayed object. User should be able to control the positioning of the menu and even get rid of it.
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5. 2. Windows Environments
The user’s screen is divided into rectangular areas, each of which is a window.
There are three window models:
1. Tiled
2. Cascaded
3. Overlapped
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6. Tiled Windows Limited number of windows, no overlap.
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7. Cascaded Windows Maximum use of the screen area.
Enables easy window selection.
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8. How deep can you cascade?
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9. Overlapped Windows
Most common system
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11. 3. Graphical Interaction
The user is defining and modifying sketches, diagrams, renderings, etc.
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12. 4. Direct Manipulation
The user manipulates objects through button pushes and movements of pointing devices:
Mouse
Trackball
Touch screen
Direct Manipulation Operations:
Move
Drag (and Drop)
Rotate
Press
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13. Mouse Operations SELECT LOCATE in space from a list ORIENTATE in TEXT
a direction Operations
draw PATH VALUATE
First item
Second item
x=33,y=21
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14. Direct Manipulation Screen
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15. Direct manipulation of a device
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16. Trackballs
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17. Touch Screens
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18. Pick-and-Drop for Multiple Computer Environments
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19. Windows 8.0 Live Tiles (Metro)

20. Tiles Overload