Five Interaction Styles
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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.
