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• utility window

  a window used for application options, controls, or tools, rather th…

• artificial intelligence

  “AI”; a field of study which examines how to perform hig…

• confound

  any factor that might serve as an alternative (and generally undesir…

• yoozability

  “yoozability” is not the correct spelling of “u…

• Motif

  a standard set of user interface components and guidelines for appli…

• scenario

  a design envisionment technique whereby a set of representative tar…

• insertion point

  the place where text will appear when a user types, usually marked by a…

• electronic ink

  in pen-based computing systems, the untranslated scrawls a user mak…