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Definition: Graphical User Interface |
Graphical User InterfaceNoun1. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text; uses a mouse as well as a keyboard as an input device. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A graphical user interface (or GUI, often pronounced "goo-ee") is a method of interacting with a computer that uses graphical images and widgets in addition to text.
The graphical user interface was invented at Xerox PARC for the Xerox Alto computer and most modern general purpose GUIs are derived from it. (Some say GUIs were conceptualized by Doug Engelbart and first created by Xerox.) For this reason some people call this class of interface a PARC User Interface (PUI). The PUI consists of graphical widgets such as windows, menuss, buttonss, radio boxes, and iconss, and employs a pointing device (such as mouse, trackball, or touchscreen) in addition to a keyboard. For this reason, many people refer to PUIs as WIMPs (Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointer). Widgets are often pre-implemented in the form of widget toolkits.
Examples of systems that support PUIs are Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, and the X Window System. The latter is extended with toolkits such as Motif (CDE), Qt (KDE), GTK+ and (GNOME).
GUIs that are not PUIs are most notable in computer games. Advanced GUIs based on virtual reality are frequent in research.
In academic and research circles a GUI is often referred to as a Direct manipulation interface. This term was invented and adopted in the late 80s because it was felt that the term "Graphic User Interface" did not reflect the actual physical or haptic reality of manipulating a mouse or using a touch screen and that it ignored completely the coordinated use of sound effects to support the manipulation of the graphic elements of this kind of user interface. Also, academic and research institutions often work on prototypes of future user interfaces which place an equal emphasis or even more emphasis on the tactile elements of the interface. The "direct manipulation interface" term is usually not presented as an acronym.
There also exist GUIs which are designed for vertical market segments. These are known as application-specific GUIs. One example of such a GUI is the now familiar touchscreen point of sale software found in restaurants worldwide. First pioneered by Gene Mosher on the Atari ST computer in 1986, this touchscreen GUI has spearheaded a worldwide revolution in the use of computer technologies throughout the food & beverage industry and in the retail segment in general.
Similar to GUIs are text user interfaces (TUIs) that display the same types of widgets in a character-cell mode rather than in a pixel mode. Examples include the interfaces of many ncurses and MS-DOS applications.
The graphical user interface is generally contrasted with the command line interface (CLI).
Because GUIs and TUIs tend to show most or all relevant categories of commands on the display, users often learn them faster than CLIs, but users with vision or motion disability often have trouble navigating in a GUI, and most commercial GUIs use at least an order of magnitude more computer power than a CLI, making a GUI unwieldy on older hardware.
See also: History of the GUI, UIML, Fitts' law, Anti-Mac, Apple v. Microsoft
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Graphical user interface."
Synonym: Graphical User InterfaceSynonym: GUI (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Graphical User Interface |
| English words defined with "graphical user interface": dialog box ♦ icon ♦ panel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "graphical user interface": Abstract Window Toolkit ♦ DataViews, double-click, drag and drop ♦ FreeBSD, Fudgets ♦ Geographic Update System for X Window, GNU Smalltalk ♦ Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench ♦ MIGRAINES, msgGUI ♦ NewWave, NEXTSTEP ♦ Open Look, OpenWindows, OS/2, OS2 ♦ PIGUI, Platform Independent Graphical User Interface, point-and-drool interface, PowerBuilder, Presentation Manager, Psion Organiser, pull-down menu ♦ RISC OS ♦ service creation environment, Solaris ♦ text-based, T-gen, three-tier, tool bar, toolbook ♦ UAN, user interface copyright ♦ visual programming language ♦ Windows 95, WINZIP. (references) |
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Expression using "graphical user interface": platform Independent Graphical User Interface. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
graphical user interface | 69 |
graphical user interface gui | 4 |
graphical user interface design | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "graphical user interface"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 圖像"戶介面 (GUI). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | grafisk brugergrænseflade. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | grafisch gebruikersinterface. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | graafinen käyttöliittymä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | interface utilisateur graphique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | grafische Anwenderschnittstelle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | διεπαφή γραφικών των χρηστών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | interfaccia grafica utente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aphicalgray erusay interfaceay interface gráfica de utilizador. (various references) interface gráfica de usuario. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"Graphical User Interface" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: grafical user interface. (additional references) | |
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Deens, danisht, danishte, لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish; Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch; 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