1. T.Sharon - A.Frank 1 Multimedia Character User Interfaces

2. 2 T.Sharon - A.Frank Multimedia Interfaces - The Vision: Perfect HCI - No Mediators

3. 3 T.Sharon - A.Frank Too overloaded UI?!

4. 4 T.Sharon - A.Frank Generations of User Interfaces Generations of User Interfaces: 1.CUI – Character/Command User Interface 2.GUI - Graphic User Interface 3.MUI - Multimedia User Interface Comparison of User Interfaces

5. 5 T.Sharon - A.Frank 1. Character/Command User Interface (CUI) There are 4 major CUIs: Command line dialogues Programming language dialogues Menu systems Form filling dialogues

6. 6 T.Sharon - A.Frank 1. Command Line Dialogues The user types instructions to the computer in a formally defined command language [copy[/A][/B][d:][path]filename[.ext] [d:][path]filename[.ext] CommandOptions Full specification of filename Abbreviated filename May have extension Source file specification Destination file specification Example of DOS command

7. 7 T.Sharon - A.Frank Example command line dialogue

8. 8 T.Sharon - A.Frank Command options

9. 9 T.Sharon - A.Frank 2. Programming Language Dialogues The command language allows its own extensions through the definition of procedures % % alias cr ‘ cd \!*; rm * ’ % set filename = /etc/passwd % setenv DISPLAY tlpth15:0.0 %

10. 10 T.Sharon - A.Frank autoexec.bat

11. 11 T.Sharon - A.Frank Sample batch file

12. 12 T.Sharon - A.Frank 3. Menu Systems Choose program option that is desired: 1 = input data manually 2 = input data from existing data file 3 = perform simplified analysis 4= perform detailed analysis 5 = produce tabular output Select option ? __ The user chooses a command by selecting from a displayed menu.

13. 13 T.Sharon - A.Frank Pine Mail Menu

14. 14 T.Sharon - A.Frank 4. Form Filling Dialogues The user issues commands by filling in fields in forms displayed on the screen. Name: ______ Sex(M/F): _ Age: ___ Address Street: ______________House: ____ City: __ ________ Zip: _____ Back:Shift+Tab Next:Tab ^T:Top ^X:Exit

15. 15 T.Sharon - A.Frank More Modern Forms

16. 16 T.Sharon - A.Frank But how to sign on forms?!