“User Interface Considerations of Windowing Systems” by Grimes, Champlin, Mackay, Marcus, Teitelman, et al. …
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Entry Number: 16
Title:
- User Interface Considerations of Windowing Systems
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• Introduction/Grimes
• User interface improvement based on three case
studies/Bancroft
Case study #1-Drawing program
Case study #2-Interactive output utility
Case study #3-Graphics environment setup program
• Building a good user interface out of toolkits/Mackay
Using X Version 11 as an example
Role of toolkits
Videotape examples
• Unexpected applications: Interactive art, artist tool making
and user education/Veeder
• User interface considerations for large screen, multi-tasking
workstations/Teitelman
Workstation vs. PC differences
What is OPEN LOOK?
The future?
• Human factors of window design/Marcus
Typography
Symbolism
Layout
Color
• Panel discussion “Is it too soon to formally standardize the
user interface?”/AII
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- Mary Whitton
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- Charles Babbage Institute Archives, University of Minnesota
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