The command line can be very effective and efficient for some activities. There was a lot of research in the 1980s about how to develop an effective and usable command line and some research showing that a well-designed command line can be as usable as a menu or direct manipulation system for some task.
Mark notes that command lines are coming back into style and in fact, many of our systems are hybrid interfaces with a combination of: Direct manipulation interfaces Menu interfaces Command line interfaces Form user interfaces Voice user interfaces\ ...... Chauncey On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Mark Young <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is like the command line. > > Have you noticed that the command line is coming back into style? > Take a look at how people use the search box and how it is evolving. > Try out Google Voice Search on a handset and imagine what more it > will be able to do in 5 years. > > What do you think will happen as our PCs become more integrated with > our homes? How will you perform input when you're working in your > kitchen? Even if we have GUIs that follow us around we'll need help > for hands-free situations - voice input is the best option in that > case. > > How will visually-impaired people use computers? > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36596 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
