The Kitchen Interface- a Lateral Approach to GUI Duncan Langford,CeinwenJones Abstract interfaces can be traced directly from 'computer led' human/ computer interaction in the 1950's. For those without previous computer experience, there can be little doubt that the visual analogy ofa desktop has proved functional: 'Syntax errors are eliminated, so the only complexity lies with the application not with the system interface' [Maddix, 1990]. Such representational analogies in user interface design encourage easy assimilation of new but related meanings for familiar images. This permits rapid and effective use of an underlying unfamiliar operations system. Typically, GUI representation provides consistent graphic metaphors whose meaning, transferred from the users' wider experience, is already largely familiar. Many user interfaces currently employ some kind of metaphor, most notably the 'desktop metaphor'. Such representation is growing fast. [Erickson 1990] claims 'just about everyone at Apple knows the phrase 'desktop metaphor' and fervently believes that a good metaphor is essential to an easy-to-use human interface'. Specifically examining GUI in relation to the existing desktop paradigm clarifies the advantages of this analogy. As we have said, a physical desktop is likely to be familiar to most if not all business users, and the analogy, particularly
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The kitchen interface—a lateral approach to GUI
Langford, Duncan; Jones, Ceinwen
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, Volume 26 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – Apr 1, 1994
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