In human–computer interaction, WIMP stands for "windows, icons, menus, pointer", denoting a style of interaction using these elements of the user interface...
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menu Federal Standard 1037C Hamburger button Pie menu Radio button WIMP (computing) Apple Human Interface Guidelines – Menus Jakob Nielsen. "Mega Drop-Down...
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WIMP (computing), the "window, icon, menu, pointer" paradigm WIMP (software bundle), the web stack of Windows, IIS, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python WiMP,...
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In computing, post-WIMP ("windows, icons, menus, pointer") comprises work on user interfaces, mostly graphical user interfaces, which attempt to go beyond...
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Computer (redirect from Computing device)
of the analytical engine's computing unit (the mill) in 1888. He gave a successful demonstration of its use in computing tables in 1906. In his work...
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Display server Graphical user interface Human interface guidelines WIMP (computing) Window manager Reimer, Jeremy (2005). "A History of the GUI (Part...
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Resource (Windows) Semasiography The Noun Project Unicode symbols WIMP (computing) XPM "ICT Pictograms, Icons and Symbols, 10 May 2011". Archived from...
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Weakly interacting massive particle (redirect from WIMPs)
particles (WIMPs) are hypothetical particles that are one of the proposed candidates for dark matter. There exists no formal definition of a WIMP, but broadly...
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which can be watched and modified by their associated applications. WIMP (computing) Layout manager List of widget toolkits Past, Present and Future of...
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Graphical user interface (redirect from Desktop (computing))
icons, text fields, canvases, menus, pointer (WIMP) paradigm, especially in personal computers. The WIMP style of interaction uses a virtual input device...
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Operating system Skeuomorph Tiling window manager Virtual desktop WIMP (computing) "Desktop Metaphor". www.csdl.tamu.edu. Archived from the original...
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Personal computer (redirect from Personal computing)
Yugoslavia'ｓ Home-Brewed Microcomputer". IEEE Spectrum. 60 (8): 16–18. "Computing Japan". Computing Japan. 54–59: 18. 1999. Archived from the original on 17 January...
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Pointing device (category Computing input devices)
presentations as a pointing device Cursor (user interface) Input device WIMP (computing) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pointing device. Zhai, Shumin...
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events in the history of computing from 1980 to 1989. For narratives explaining the overall developments, see the history of computing. "Sinclair ZX80 Launched"...
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Cursor (user interface) (redirect from Pointer (computing WIMP))
right-to-left text would be inserted. In computing, a pointer or mouse pointer (as part of a personal computer WIMP style of interaction) is a symbol or graphical...
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Outline of human–computer interaction (category Outlines of computing and engineering)
Interface Elements of graphical user interfaces Pointer Widget (computing) icons WIMP (computing) Point and click Drag and drop Window managers WYSIWYG (what...
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screens. It is a type of graphical user interface (GUI) which implements the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) paradigm for a user interface. Each currently...
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associated with interfaces that use windows, icons, menus, and a pointing device (WIMP GUI) as these almost always incorporate direct manipulation to at least some...
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parapsychologist Bill Verplank, interface designer of the Xerox Star, the first WIMP (computing) GUI Leo Villareal, installation artist and Burning Man board member...
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wallpapers and desktop widgets (see Elements of graphical user interfaces and WIMP). A GUI might also provide drag and drop functionality and other features...
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EPOC (operating system) (redirect from EPOC (computing))
by device. The notebook computers had a windows, icons, menus, pointer (WIMP) graphical user interface (GUI). The handheld computers, which had smaller...
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control of Wimp Plasbot, who works in a tomato puree plant, and must rid the plant of the mutated killer tomatoes, referred to in the title. Wimp Plasbot...
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Atwood thought the new system made menus obsolete as a cornerstone of the WIMP interface when it was first revealed in 2005. Redmondmag.com reported that...
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– Researchers at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (many from SRI) develop WIMP paradigm (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers) 1973 – Xerox Alto: commercial...
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In computing, a virtual desktop is a term used with respect to user interfaces, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which the virtual...
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Interaction technique (section The computing view)
more efficient interaction techniques for common computing tasks. This includes inventing new (post-WIMP) interaction techniques, possibly relying on methods...
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In computing, a solution stack or software stack is a set of software subsystems or components needed to create a complete platform such that no additional...
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History of the graphical user interface (category History of computing)
based on independent code, but with basic elements in common that define the WIMP "window, icon, menu and pointing device" paradigm. There have been important...
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parts of the spreadsheet within the same screen. This is useful in lieu of a WIMP environment, as it saves the user the inconvenience of moving back and forth...
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