IST 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hypertext, Human Computer, Trackball

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Information Studies
• Course: IST 352
• Professor: Corsello

Document Summary

Must answer the who, what, where, and how questions. A typical interface/dialogue design specification is similar to form design, but includes multiple forms and dialogue sequence specifications. Dialogue sequence the ways a user can move from one display to another. Interface: a method by which users interact with an information system. All human-computer interfaces must: have an interaction style, and use some hardware device(s) for supporting this interaction. Command language interaction: a human-computer interaction method whereby users enter explicit statements into a system to invoke operations. Command copies a file from c: drive to a: drive. Menu interaction: a human-computer interaction method in which a list of system options is provided and a specific command is invoked by user selection of a menu option. Pop-up menu: a menu-positioning method that places a menu near the current cursor position. Drop-down menu is a menu-positioning method that places the access point of the menu near the top line of the display.