Glossary

Popular Glossary Terms

• Thurstone scale

  a way of measuring people’s attitudes along a single dimensio…

• pie menu

  a circular menu of options radiating out from where the user clicks. E…

• design rationale

  the reasoning that leads to design decisions. Documenting design ra…

• inverse video

  or reverse video; the use of inverted graphics (black for white and wh…

• query box

  a type of dialog box that poses a question to the user and has a space for…

• split line

  a line separating two panes of a split window. A split line can be dragg…

• anonymity

  the ability to participate in interactions with other people withou…

• constraint

  a declarative specification of relationships between variables. T…