These allow activations of commands and tasks through selection. These can be organized as a one-dimensional list or a two dimensional array of items.

Menus

The mouse made it possible for users to apply a direct metaphoric “touch” to the target objects.

Direct Interaction Through Pointer

In considering the interactive interface options of an application, it is essential to understand the following representative GUI components for soliciting input from a user in a conventional manner:

GUI Components for User Input

It is described as “an image that provides the perception of depth” (TechTarget, n.d.).

3D Interface

is a way to design a website or an application service at a structural level.

Wireframing

This is used for making short to medium alphanumeric input.

Text box

This is a small group of frequently used icons or functions organized horizontally or vertically for a quick and direct access.

Toolbar

This is a mixture of menus, buttons, and text boxes for long and interrelated input.

Forms

This is a mixture of menus, buttons, and text boxes used for short and mixed mode input.

Dialog box

It is a drop-down list box that includes an option to the user to either choose an option from the list or type in their own option in the text box.

Combo box

Sometimes, software interface components are referred to as

user interface components

WIMP means ________?

(windows, icon, menu, and pointer)

The design configuration of a hardware interaction platform greatly depends on the characteristics of the application that requires a certain operating environment.

Hardware Platforms

Developing a system requires initial research, which must be conducted thoroughly from a user perspective in order to optimize the interaction between the system and the user, it is necessary to know the user needs and characteristics, usage context, preceding systems and the competitive system aspects(Center for Usability Research and Engineering, n.d.).

Requirement Analysis

This design process reinforces the original requirements analysis to satisfy potential system use more comprehensively.

User Analysis

This design process is the most important part of interaction modeling. It involves the identification of the application task structure and the sequential relationship between the different elements of the program or a system.

Scenario and Task Modeling

Software interface components (e.g., search fields and widgets), interaction techniques (e.g., voice and facial recognition), and hardware specifications (e.g., sensors and display monitors) will be made in this design process

Interface Selection and Consolidation

is a channel between human and computer interaction, where a user interacts with and M controls a computer or machine to complete tasks effectively and efficiently (Everyinteraction.com, n.d.).

User interface (UI)

is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications, especially when programming a graphical user interface (GUI).

Application programming interface (API)

is a software utility found in most GUI-based software and applications that manage the overall alignment and layout of graphical windows.

Window manager

This requires the user to enter responses to questions asked by the computer. It is called _____________ because the computer and the user seem to have a conversation.

Natural Language Interface

This provides the user with an on-screen list of available selections, although the options displayed are limited.

Menu-Based Interface

It consists of on-screen forms or Web-based forms displaying fields containing data items or parameters that need to be communicated to or solicited from the user.

Form-Based Interface

It allows the user to control the application with a series of keystrokes, commands, phrases, or some sequence of these three (3) methods, though the command language has no inherent meaning for the user.

Command Line Interface (CLI)

Most interfaces today are already graphical. This type of interface is expected to be available in a multi-tasking environment or an application that involves a considerable degree of complexity (theteacher.info Ltd., n.d.).

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

pertains to any information or data that is sent to a computer for processing

input

refers to any information that was processed by and sent out from a computer or any electronic device.

output

An ______ is a signal to the processor indicating that an I/O event has occurred and must be handled.

interrupt

It is a programming paradigm in which the flow of program execution is determined by events like a mouse click keypress, or a message from the operating system or another program.

Event-driven program

This object in Java is created when something changes within a GUI.

Event

It refers to the object that is triggered in an event.

Event Source

It is a program code that listens for changes, additions, user interaction, etc.

Event Listener

It represent different core event handling mechanism in Java.

Event classes