Five Interaction Styles
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| - | The Fill-In-The-Blanks interaction style (also known as "Form Fill-in") is best suited to data input, which was aimed at a different set of users than command language, specially non-experts users. Oriaginally Fill-In-The-Blanks is to arrange one or more fileds in the form of a prose sentence or phrase, with the fields as "blanks" to be filled in by the user. The TAB-key was designed and is still being used to switch between the fields and ENTER to submit the form. Therefore a pointing device (such as a mouse) was not really needed at that time. | + | The Fill-In-The-Blanks interaction style (also known as "Form Fill-in") is best suited to data input, which was aimed at a different set of users than command language, specially non-experts users. Oriaginally Fill-In-The-Blanks is to arrange one or more fileds in the form of a prose sentence or phrase, with the fields as "blanks" to be filled in by the user. The TAB-key was designed and is still being used to switch between the fields and ENTER to submit the form. Therefore a pointing device (such as a mouse) was not really needed at that time. However it's very common to mix forms with other interaction styles in software design nowadays, such as drop down menus, check boxes etc. Even today, there are quite a few computers are still purely forms-based in the industry, like cash registers, financial systems, pay roll systems, and so on. The main reason is because the Fill-In-The-Blanks interface is especially useful for routine, clerical work or those tasks require a great amount of data entry. |
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The Five Interaction Styles
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Shneiderman's Five Interaction Styles
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Fill-In-The-Blanks
The Fill-In-The-Blanks interaction style (also known as "Form Fill-in") is best suited to data input, which was aimed at a different set of users than command language, specially non-experts users. Oriaginally Fill-In-The-Blanks is to arrange one or more fileds in the form of a prose sentence or phrase, with the fields as "blanks" to be filled in by the user. The TAB-key was designed and is still being used to switch between the fields and ENTER to submit the form. Therefore a pointing device (such as a mouse) was not really needed at that time. However it's very common to mix forms with other interaction styles in software design nowadays, such as drop down menus, check boxes etc. Even today, there are quite a few computers are still purely forms-based in the industry, like cash registers, financial systems, pay roll systems, and so on. The main reason is because the Fill-In-The-Blanks interface is especially useful for routine, clerical work or those tasks require a great amount of data entry.
