Chapter 9 - Past, Present, Future, User interface
- 1. Past, Present, and Future of User Interface Software Tools Muhammad Najib, M.T
- 2. Background All existing software applications are the results of research conducted in 1970-1990’s Almost all applications on Windows, UNIX, or Macintosh generally use a set of materials found at least 15 years ago, for example: monitor screens, keyboards, and mice, Window managers, GUIs, etc. Use of this material to achieve stability, meaning: Stability for the user: useful for developing his skills in the computer field Stability for equipment or software developers: useful to improve the concept of developing equipment and software
- 3. Historical Perspective Themes in equipment evaluation: The parts of the user interface that are intended: that the equipment is considered helpful, namely when they are needed Threshold and ceiling. "Threshold" is the level of difficulty in using a system. "Ceiling" is how much the system can do. The purpose of making the system is at the same time the system provides a low threshold and high ceiling Equipment that provides low resistance The ability of equipment that gives predictions about its ability to programmers Tools that can easily help making software a task
- 4. Historical Perspective (cont.) Equipment used for making IMK: Windows managers and toolkits: provide a basic model of programming, imaging models and input models Event languages: its use is considered successful because it can directly manipulate graphical user interfaces. Examples include: Apple's HyperCard, Microsoft's Visual Basic, the Lingo scripting language in Macromedia's Director Interactive graphical tools: usually use the mouse to create interfaces. Ex: Visual Basic, Visual C ++, NeXT Interface Builder, Trillium from Xerox PARC, and MenuLay from the University of Toronto.
- 5. Historical Perspective (cont.) Component systems: each component is controlled using a rectangular box on the screen, and the other components are then inserted next, for example: to make a 'line' then you can use the 'drawing' component in windows Scripting languages: eg C and C ++ languages Hypertext: used for creating web sites, eg HTML, XML Object-oriented programming: eg: Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, etc.
- 6. Future Prospects and Visions Computers will become commodities: Caused by the ability of computers that very quickly follow Moore's law Ubiquitous computing Namely the use of computers will be embedded in a variety of different types of equipment on a variety of different scales, eg mobile phones, PDAs, notebooks, sound systems, etc. Different input and output capabilities Example: the increasing number of pixels, the higher the resolution, the more general use of touch-sensitive screens, the change from the use of the mouse to the stylus
- 7. Future Prospects and Visions (cont.) Hardware to speed up the manufacture of equipment, and not just from software, for example: today to make a product prototype can be accelerated by using AutoCAD software, but for the future not only software but also can use hardware. Equipment for coordinating various types of communication equipment The function of the computer will turn into a communication tool, for example: internet access, cellphone, PDA, etc.
- 8. Future Prospects and Visions (cont.) Recognition-based user interfaces. Changes in use from the keyboard and mouse to gesture, handwriting, and speech input and output Use of 3-dimensional technology 2-dimensional technology will be replaced with 3 dimensions. End-user programming, customization, and scripting. Because everyone has different desires, so they want to have different software according to their own tastes, and making programs easier so that they can create their own