Direct Manipulation
Word Processing
Video Games
Menus & Forms
Keyboards / Keypads
100
Mastery of the interface
What is a positive feeling reported by enthusiastic users?
100
20 - 60
What are the number of lines shown simultaneously in a WYSIWYG word processor.
100
Forty million of these reside in 70% of households including 8 to 12 year-olds.
What are Nintendo game players?
100
This menu is limited to two choices.
What is a binary menu?
100
Originally designed by Latham to prevent fast typers from jamming keys.
What is the QWERTY keyboard?
200
An artificial social environment that uses virtual reality.
What is Second Life?
200
Arrow keys and devices, such as mice, provide physical mechanisms for moving the cursor.
What is natural cursor motion?
200
Introduced in 2006, this gaming platform changed the demographics associated with game play (adding older adults to the huge 8-12 year-old crowd).
What is Nintendo Wii?
200
A graphical menu design that allows for one or more items to be selected.
What are check boxes?
200
The displacement of a key press on well designed keyboards.
What is 1 to 4 mms?
300
This direct manipulation example is widely used and includes looking directly out of a window.
What is driving an automobile
300
Deletions are displayed immediately
What is immediate display of results?
300
This popular gaming device added a wireless controller usually only seen on stage with rock stars.
What is Guitar Hero?
300
You would probably use this menu design to select your marital status.
What are radio buttons?
300
In "point tasks" users specify a value.
What is Quantify?
400
"Once you've used a display editor, you will never go back to a line editor-you'll be spoiled."
A comment made about WordStar(TM) or EMACs (UNIX(R) word processor).
400
Presentation software using color and text layouts
What is MS PowerPoint(R) and Apple Keynote (R)?
400
These virtual worlds have provoked controversy over their psychological effects on teens.
What is DOOM(R) and QUAKE(R)?
400
Essential for expert users of any menu system.
What are hot keys or keyboard shortcuts?
400
This only input device to survive Disney Theme Parks.
What are touchscreens?
500
A term used in HCI to describing early display editors ... seeing what you actually created.
What is WYSIWYG
500
You may not be a whiz at writing but this feature will solve your advanced writing sentence construction blues.
What is a grammar checker?
500
This latter-day apostle warned us against the affects of virtual worlds taking away the spiritually of real life.
Who is David A. Bednar?
500
This menu design is typically used in the SIMS and other Avaunt Guard systems.
What is a pie menu?
500
An equation to calculate the movement time of a given device.
What is Fitt's Law?
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