Glossary

Popular Glossary Terms

• tiering

  a way of taking the tasks to be performed and putting them in several ti…

• pen-based computing

  interacting with computers using a pen, as opposed to a keyboard or mo…

• co-located

  group activity that takes place in a specific location; co-located g…

• Open Look Graphical User Interface

  a GUI standard introduced for X-Windows systems on Unix platforms. A…

• ubiquitous computing

  computers everywhere: the idea that computers are getting smaller a…

• critical mass

  the number of people who need to be using a system before it can be succe…

• AWT

  Abstract Windows Toolkit; a Java library for development of user int…

• storyboard

  a series of illustrations that represent a process, such as the steps…