Read the text and do the activities

A)    Find the answers to these questions in the following text.

1.      What is the meaning of GUI?

2.      Where it is used graphical user interface?

3.      In the area of ​​interface design which is the goal of programming in the field of human-computer interaction?

4.      What is the purpose of using the methods of user-centered design?

5.      Name some of the needs of GUI design.

6.      Which   device recently, used GUI ?

B)  Make the following statements as True or False:

·         In the latest cell phones and handheld game systems also employ application specific touchscreen GUIs.

·         The GUI is a graphical used image.

·         One method for design of GUI is a used-centered, this a used to ensure that the visual language introduced in the design is well tailored to the tasks.

·         The goal of a programming in the area of human computer interaction is improve the characteristics of the designs.

Graphical user interface

Today, almost everybody in the developed world interacts with personal computers in some form or another. We use them at home and at work, for entertainment, information, and as tools to leverage our knowledge and intelligence. It is pretty much assumed whenever anyone sits down to use a personal computer that it will operate with a graphical user interface. We expect to interact with it primarily using a mouse, launch programs by clicking on icons, and manipulate various windows on the screen using graphical controls. But this was not always the case. Why did computers come to adopt the GUI as their primary mode of interaction, and how the GUI evolve to be the way it is today?

In computing, a graphical user interface (GUI, commonly pronounced gooey) is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and office equipment. A GUI represents the information and actions available to a user through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, as opposed to text-based interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation. The actions are usually performed through direct manipulation of the graphical elements.

Designing the visual composition and temporal behavior of GUI is an important part of software application programming in the area of human-computer interaction. Its goal is to enhance the efficiency and ease of use for the underlying logical design of a stored program, a design discipline known as usability. Methods of user-centered design are used to ensure that the visual language introduced in the design is well tailored to the tasks.Typically, the user interacts with information by manipulating visual widgets that allow for interactions appropriate to the kind of data they hold.

A GUI may be designed for the requirements of a vertical market as application-specific graphical user interfaces. Examples of application-specific GUIs are:

• Automated teller machines (ATM)

• Point-Of-Sale touchscreens at restaurants

• Self-service checkouts used in a retail store

• Airline self-ticketing and check-in

• Information kiosks in a public space, like a train station or a museum

            • Monitors or control screens in an embedded industrial application which employ a real time operating system (RTOS).

The latest cell phones and handheld game systems also employ application specific touchscreen GUIs. Newer automobiles use GUIs in their navigation systems and touch screen multimedia centers.