HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
second edition
Dix, Finlay, Abowd and Beale
Chapter 10 - Implementation support
Overview
- Programming tools for interactive systems provide a means of effectively translating abstract designs and usability principles into an executable form. These tools provide different levels of services for the programmer.
- Windowing systems are a central environment for both the programmer and user of an interactive system, allowing a single workstation to support separate userŠsystem threads of action simultaneously.
- Interaction toolkits abstract away from the physical separation of input and output devices, allowing the programmer to describe behaviours of objects at a level similar to how the user perceives them.
- User interface management systems are the final level of programming support tools, allowing the designer and programmer to control the relationship between the presentation objects of a toolkit with their functional semantics in the actual application.
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