Face up to the interface [user interfaces]

An attempt is made to establish the view that any medium used to convey information is an interface. Knowing this, technical communicators should be able to make use of human-factors research and techniques that deal with user interfaces. The author discusses the human-factors principles of standardization, iteration and measurement, which all show promise when applied to technical communication     

The brain as user interface [remotely guided rats]

Neuroscientists have used a wireless receiver and electrodes implanted in a rat's brain to steer the rodent anywhere they want it to go. Suppose you want to guide a small robotic system through collapsed buildings to search for survivors. In pure robotics, this is a tough job. But remotely guided rats carrying wireless video cameras fit the bill nicely. The brain implant enables a trained rat to be instructed to turn right, turn left, or move forward according to keystrokes from a laptop as far as 500 meters away. Electrodes are implanted in three areas of the brain: one in the medial forebrain bundle (MFB), which is associated with feelings of pleasure, and one each in the left and right somatosensory cortex, part of the brain that handles the sense of touch. In particular, the electrodes are implanted in the parts of the cortex that sense the rat' s whiskers.     

Of modes & men [user interfaces]

This paper describes the career history of Larry Tesler, Vice President of User Experience and Design Department at Yahoo! Inc. It also presents some of the user interface innovations Tesler pioneered.     

A faster UDP [user datagram protocol]

As an experiment in protocol optimizations, the authors undertook to improve the performance of a stateless protocol, namely the user datagram protocol (UDP) in the 4.3 BSD Unix kernel. The authors describe the successful optimizations that were done, along with measurements that shows a UDP performance improvement of between 25-35% on CISC and RISC systems, and overall kernal improvement of between 12% and 18%     

Modeling the user interface

The application of an object-oriented approach to modeling the application and presentation layer of the human-machine interfaces in a telecommunications management network architecture is described. It is argued that a significant simplification in information interchange between human and machine occurs when the machine has a model of the user to which it can conform. Several aspects of user modeling are discussed. The development and implementation of new input devices are also discussed     

Keep looking [haptic automotive interface]

This article discusses the application of haptic interfaces as part of an advanced vehicle demonstration project conducted in conjunction with the New Jersey Department of Transportation, the New Jersey State Police, and the FHWA     

Energy-efficient graphical user interface design

Mobile computers, such as cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), have dramatically increased in sophistication. At the same time, the desire of consumers for portability limits batters size. As a result, many researchers have targeted hardware and software energy optimization. However, most of these techniques focus on compute-intensive applications rather than interactive applications, which are dominant in mobile computers. These systems frequently use graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to handle human-computer interaction. This paper is the first to explore how GUIs can be designed to improve system energy efficiency. We investigate how GUI design approaches should be changed to improve system. Energy efficiency and provide specific suggestions to mobile computer designers to enable them to develop more energy-efficient systems. We demonstrate that energy-efficient GUI (E/sup 2/GUI) design techniques can improve the average system energy of three benchmarks (text-viewer, personnel viewer, and calculator) by 26.9, 45.2, and 16.4 percent, respectively. Average performance is simultaneously improved by 23.7, 34.6, and 19.3 percent, respectively.     

基于模型的多设备用户界面设计

利用模型驱动理论,建立了一个包括多个平台无关模型和平台相关模型的多设备用户界面模型。通过分析各模型间的转换规则,描述了界面的构成元素和交互关系,给出了面向不同设备的界面展示规则和界面布局树,实现了不同设备上的用户界面,使应用系统在不同设备上同用户交互成为可能。     

Unusual boundary conditions at an interface [EM theory]

The derivation of electromagnetic boundary conditions at an interface by applying Gauss' divergence theorem to a flat pillbox or Stokes' curl theorem to a narrow contour is considered for two types of unusual boundary condition. One is an electric field discontinuity and the other is a double layer of current. It is suggested that the usual continuity proofs, based on pillboxes and contours of vanishing dimension, must be handled with care. Specifically, a `δ function' behavior of certain components along the normal is possible     

SJ／T 11372—2007《中文办公软件用户界面要求》概述

范围 本标准规定了中文办公软件用户界面的各种元素.中文办公软件应用一般包括文字处理、电子表格和演示文稿. 本标准只统一办公软件的基本功能,不限制新的功能与功能组合;只统一名称,不统一外观;尊重用户已有的使用习惯,同时不阻碍产生新的使用方法;考虑三项应用界面之间的一致性;考虑不同平台用户的习惯及技术环境.     

智能用户界面设计与实现

用户界面是人与机之间交流,沟通的层面,是软件产品的重要组成部分,本文提出一种基于控件显示属性自动记录的界面设计思路,以在Delphi中的数据表格控件（DBGrid）的列宽属性的自动设置为例,说明智能用户界面的实现的设计思路与方案。     

Mobile tele-echography: user interface design.

Ultrasound imaging allows the evaluation of the degree of emergency of a patient. However, in some instances, a well-trained sonographer is unavailable to perform such echography. To cope with this issue, the Mobile Tele-Echography Using an Ultralight Robot (OTELO) project aims to develop a fully integrated end-to-end mobile tele-echography system using an ultralight remote-controlled robot for population groups that are not served locally by medical experts. This paper focuses on the user interface of the OTELO system, consisting of the following parts: an ultrasound video transmission system providing real-time images of the scanned area, an audio/video conference to communicate with the paramedical assistant and with the patient, and a virtual-reality environment, providing visual and haptic feedback to the expert, while capturing the expert's hand movements. These movements are reproduced by the robot at the patient site while holding the ultrasound probe against the patient skin. In addition, the user interface includes an image processing facility for enhancing the received images and the possibility to include them into a database.     

便携系统的用户接口设计

有许多方法从一个计算机平台输入或输出信息。在大多数情况下是由应用来决定什么是最适合的用户接口方式。选择的范围可以是标准键盘或小型键盘、光笔、触摸屏,甚至是语音输入。还包括和机器集成在一起的点击式输入设备,如触摸垫（touch pad）、小型鼠标、点击棒（pointing stick）等。将来,也许会有其他更有趣的设备。决定选择这些方法的主要因素是成本和接口的方式。如果成本不是一个主要考虑的因素,那么,几乎所有的接口方式都可以被选用。语音识别应该是最难实现的一种输入方式,但如果不考虑成本,则可以极大地提高处理器的处理能…     

A monolithic subscriber line interface circuit [in bipolar technology]

A monolithic SLIC fabricated with high-voltage dielectric isolation (DI) technology has been proven to have excellent performance and requires a minimum of external circuitry. The SLIC provides battery feed, overvoltage protection (with some external devices), ringing control, supervision, and hybrid functions.     

关于图形用户界面自动化测试探讨

图形用户界面是当前客户端软件开发常用的技术之一,而图形用户界面的测试是软件开发的重要过程,也是提升软件质量的重要保证,通过对图形用户界面测试的内容与测试流程进行分析,探究了图形用户界面自动测试的关键技术,为图形用户界面软件开发提供借鉴.     

Compression at the Physical Interface [The A-to-I and MONTAGE programs]

This article focuses on recent progress in physical compressive sampling under the Defense Advanced Research Agency's Analog-to-Information (A-to-I) and Multiple Optical Non-Redundant Aperture Generalized Sensors (MONTAGE) programs. A-to-I and MONTAGE focus on aggressive forms of generalized sampling under which measurements consist of transformations, projections, or encodings of the signal onto discrete digital data. The central system design challenge is to select features, sampling strategies and hardware that enable high fidelity signal estimation from these features. The A-to-I and MONTAGE projects differ in application and implementation A-to-I seeks to revolutionize very high temporal bandwidth analog to digital signal conversion whereas MONTAGE seeks to revolutionize very high spatial bandwidth analog to digital signal conversion.