Glossary

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• stimulus-response compatibility

  the degree to which what people perceive is consistent with the actio…

• mental model

  Humans establish mental models of how things work, or how they would b…

• pointer jumping

  when the pointer automatically moves around to the most likely place…

• focus+context

  a principle of information visualization — display the most i…

• proxy

  a small image that serves as a graphical preview of an operation that w…

• touch tablet

  or drawing tablet; a large flat surface that a user can touch with a han…

• direct manipulation

  performing operations by making changes to data directly, such as cl…

• readability

  the degree to which the meaning of text is accessible, based on the com…