Glossary

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• closed captions

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

• synchronous groupware

  same as “realtime groupware”; software used to help pe…

• prototype-instance model

  (programming) a version of object-oriented programming that does n…

• chiseled appearance

  The appearance that lines have been etched into a surface, by using ad…

• bloatware

  software with too many features, interfering with usability. Usual…

• flush 3d style

  a visual style for widgets in pseudo-3d interfaces; the edges of the g…

• ISO TR 18529

  “Human-centered lifecycle process descriptions”, a…

• statistical validity

  the degree to which an observed result, such as a difference between 2…