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History
Three-dimensional graphical user interface
Components
GUI and interaction design
Key facts & relationships
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Overview
- Types of interfaces User interface
- Users User (computing)
- Interact with electronic devices Human–computer interaction
- Graphical Graphics
- Icons Icon (computing)
- Secondary notation
- Text-based UIs Text-based user interface
- Learning curve
- Command-line interfaces Command-line interface
- Computer keyboard
- Direct manipulation Direct manipulation interface
- Mobile devices Mobile device
- MP3
- Smartphones Smartphone
- Industrial controls Distributed control system
- Display resolution
- Video games Video game
- Heads-up displays Heads-up display (video games)
- Volumetric displays Volumetric display
- 2D Two-dimensional Euclidean space
- Computer science
- Xerox Palo Alto Research Center PARC (company)
GUI and interaction design
- Software application
- Program Computer program
- Usability
- Widgets Widget (GUI)
- Model–view–controller
- Theme Theme (computing)
- Windows Window (computing)
- Vertical market
- Automated teller machines Automated teller machine
- Point of sale
- Self-service checkouts Self-checkout
- Kiosks Kiosk
- Real-time operating system
- Cell phones Mobile phone
Examples
- GNOME Shell
- KDE Plasma 6
- MATE MATE (software)
- Wayland compositor Wayland (display server protocol)
- Xfce
- Enlightenment Enlightenment (software)
- Sugar Sugar (software)
- Twm
- X Window System
- Dwm
- Tiling window manager
- Cinnamon Cinnamon (desktop environment)
- Phosh
Components
- Visual language
- WIMP WIMP (computing)
- Personal computers Personal computer
- Input device
- Pointing device's interface Pointing device
- Mouse Computer mouse
- Information
- Window manager
- Applications Application software
- Windowing system
- Desktop metaphor
- Desktop environment
- Image search engines Image search engine
- Imgur
- TweetDeck
Post-WIMP interface
- Personal digital assistants Personal digital assistant
- Interaction techniques Interaction technique
- Post-WIMP
- IOS
- IPhone
- Android Android (operating system)
Interaction
- Human interface devices Human interface device
- Keyboard shortcuts Keyboard shortcut
- Cursor Cursor (user interface)
- Pointer Pointer (user interface)
- Mouse Mouse (computing)
- Pointing stick
- Touchpad
- Trackball
- Joystick
- Virtual keyboards Virtual keyboard
- Head-up displays Head-up display
- Inotify
- D-Bus
History
- Ivan Sutherland
- Sketchpad
- Computer-aided design
- Light pen
- Stanford Research Institute SRI International
- Douglas Engelbart
- On-Line System NLS (computer system)
- Hyperlinks Hyperlink
- The Mother of All Demos
- Xerox PARC
- Alan Kay
- Smalltalk programming language Smalltalk
- Xerox Alto
- Computer
- Menus Menu (computing)
- Radio buttons Radio button
- Check boxes Check box
- David Canfield Smith
- PERQ workstation PERQ
- Xerox Star
- Lisp machines Lisp machine
- Symbolics
- Apple Lisa
- Menu bar
- Apple Apple Computer
- Macintosh 128K
- Atari ST
- Digital Research
- GEM Graphics Environment Manager
- Amiga
Comparison to other interfaces
- Andrew Fluegelman
- Lightweight Minimalism (computing)
- Mnemonic
- Modes Mode (user interface)
- Environment variables Environment variable
- Shell script
Three-dimensional graphical user interface
- 3D graphics
- Windows Aero
- Aqua Aqua (user interface)
- Drop shadows Drop shadow
- Rolodex
- Windows Vista
- Windows Flip 3D
- Microsoft Bob
- File System Visualizer
- GopherVR
- Zooming Zooming user interface
- Hillcrest Labs
- PlayStation 2
- Xbox Xbox (console)
- Project Looking Glass
- Metisse
- BumpTop
- Croquet OS
- Compositing window managers Compositing window manager
- Compiz
- Augmented reality
- Virtual reality
- Science fiction
- Films Science fiction film
- Coined Coined term
- William Gibson
- Cyberspace
- Neal Stephenson
- Metaverse
- Avatars Avatar (computing)
Advanced semantic analysis
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Graphical user interface
How this topic connects Entity context
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Graphical user interface
Top relations
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
gui windows guis interface users computer information graphical system use used icons interfaces many applications systems 3d devices also wimp
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| secondary notation | instance of | is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators | 0.80 | text |
| MP3 players | instance of | GUIs are used in many handheld mobile devices | 0.80 | text |
| portable media players | instance of | GUIs are used in many handheld mobile devices | 0.80 | text |
| gaming devices | instance of | GUIs are used in many handheld mobile devices | 0.80 | text |
| smartphones | instance of | GUIs are used in many handheld mobile devices | 0.80 | text |
| smaller household | instance of | GUIs are used in many handheld mobile devices | 0.80 | text |
| office | instance of | GUIs are used in many handheld mobile devices | 0.80 | text |
| industrial controls | instance of | GUIs are used in many handheld mobile devices | 0.80 | text |
| a web page | instance of | usually provide a frame or container for the main presentation content | 0.80 | text |
| email message | instance of | usually provide a frame or container for the main presentation content | 0.80 | text |
| or drawing | instance of | usually provide a frame or container for the main presentation content | 0.80 | text |
| pointing devices | instance of | The windowing system handles hardware devices | 0.80 | text |
Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
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