Glossary

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• closed captions

  a visual text view of audio that is in a sound byte or video clip. Closed…

• X-Windows

  a standard graphics platform for GUI environments. The X-Windows en…

• virtual toolkit

  a cross-platform user-interface toolkit. With a virtual toolkit, t…

• N-person view

  a user interface that has explicit representations of each of N users…

• demand characteristics

  a potential problem in user studies where people being studied have a…

• indication

  showing what item would be selected if the user were to click. Analogo…

• raster display

  the standard technology for computer monitors that display images o…

• system administration

  supporting a user community by maintaining their computer environm…