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Basic selection mechanisms inside the Windows interface do not behave consistently. selection of les within windows of a Windows desktop. The left window shows a selection in the list-view, the right windows a selection in the icon-view. Whereas in the list-view the items are selected columnwise within the rst and last element selected, in the icon-view all items in the rectangle which is formed by the upper left and the lower right le are selected.
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Early graphical user interfaces were confronted with the attitude "Real men don't use mice". In many cases this scepticism was easy to understand, since the design of early GUIs (graphical user interfaces) was even more cryptic than their text based counterparts.
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... For example, the bin metaphor on the computer desktop was useful to simplify the rather obscure method of freeing up memory that could be overwritten, but it also gave people overconfidence that files were actually destroyed, and https:// doi .org/ 10 .15215/ aupress/ 9781771993500 .01 it was confusingly used to eject disks in the Mac OS for a while (Theus & Interkom, 1999). ...
... Research in usability and standardized test procedures for usability as done by Jakob Nielsen (http://www.useit.com) are relatively unusual even today, so the " Hall of Shame " in interface design (Theus, 1999) is full of examples how not to design a user interface. ...
Modern statistical computing requires smooth integration of new algorithms and quantitative analysis results in all sorts of platforms such as webbrowsers, standard and proprietary application software. Common statistical software packages can often not be adapted to integrate into new environments or simply lack the demands users and especially beginners have. With Yxilon we propose a vertically integrable, modular statistical computing environment, providing the user a rich set of methods and a diversity of different interfaces, including command-line interface, web clients and interactive examples in electronic books. This architecture allows the users to rely upon only one environment in order to organize data from a variety of sources, analyse them and visualize or export the results to other software programs. The design of Yxilon is inspired by XploRe, a statistical environment developed by MD*Tech and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Yxilon incorporates several ideas from recent developments and design principles in software engineering: modular plug-in architecture, platform independence, and separation of user interfaces and computing engine.
... A brilliant collection of good and many bad examples of user interface design is given at http://www.iarchitects.com. A broader discussion of user interface design for interactive visualization software can be found in [8]. ...
This paper presents the Mondrian data visualization software. In addition to standard plots like histograms, barcharts, scatterplots or maps, Mondrian offers advanced plots for high dimensional categorical (mosaic plots) and continuous data (parallel coordinates). All plots are linked and offer various interaction techniques. A special focus is on the seamless integration of categorical data. Unique is Mondrian's special selection technique, which allows advanced selections in complex data sets. Besides loading data from local (ASCII) files it can connect to databases, avoiding a local copy of the data on the client machine.
Mondrian is written in 100% pure JAVA.
