Glossary

Popular Glossary Terms

• information architecture

  the organization of information; the field which studies how to orga…

• EMS

  electronic meeting systems

• shared window system

  a system that allows a single-user application to be shared among mul…

• subpane

  or just “pane”; a window may be divided into multiple su…

• proxemics

  issues dealing with spatial relationships between interface compo…

• language disorder

  any of a variety of common cognitive impairments (that limit the prod…

• effectiveness

  the degree to which an interface facilitates a user in accomplishing…

• visual brainstorming

  the process of generating a variety of graphical alternatives to a vi…