Atomic physics experiments often require a complex sequence of precisely timed computer controlled events. This paper describes a distributed graphical user interface-based control system designed with such experiments in mind, which makes use of off-the-shelf output hardware from National Instruments. The software makes use of a client-server separation between a user interface for sequence de...

As an alternative to available computer-based clinical simulations that mimic patient encounters, we developed a clinical case simulation that more closely resembles the patient record. Our system, implemented in a Macintosh program called Short Rounds, features rapid and customized case authoring by editing a structured text file, a dynamic user interface that presents a case-specific screen l...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Doc'CISMeF (DC) is a semantic search engine used to find resources in CISMeF-BP, a quality controlled health gateway, which gathers guidelines available on the internet in French. Visualization of Concepts in Medicine (VCM) is an iconic language that may ease information retrieval tasks. This study aimed to describe the creation and evaluation of an interface integratin...

The belief that humans will be able to interact with computers in conversational speech has long been a favorite subject in science fiction. This reflects the persistent belief that spoken dialogue would be the most natural and powerful user interface to computers. With recent improvements in computer technology and in speech and language processing, such systems are starting to appear feasible...

Browsing by similarity is a search tactic familiar to most people but one that the web unevenly supports. We are interested in user interface tools that augment the web with links to help users navigate from one relevant document to other relevant documents. We propose a combination of simple metrics to measure the navigability of document networks. These measures provide for low cost evaluatio...

The present paper reports an experimental test of a prototype graphic and textual search interface for a university database on art-resource works. Novice and expert searchers were tested on both interfaces with performance assessed in terms of search speed and accuracy. Verbal protocols and navigation strategies were also examined. Experts performed significantly faster than novices though bot...

SUPPLE uses decision-theoretic optimization to render an abstract functional specification into an adaptive interface, which is personalized both to an individual’s usage pattern and the characteristics of a target device. This paper briefly describes three enhancements to SUPPLE: 1) light-weight utility elicitation, 2) the ability to adapt to user’s behavior by generating interfaces with multi...

This paper examines the quality of user interfaces in an application to choose products. A high-quality interface should enable users to perform prescribed tasks quickly and without errors. The interface should also enable users to find products which match their personal values. A high-quality interface can especially empower those diverse users who might otherwise be overwhelmed by technology...

We present a new model for configuring the connections between user input and system output in a physical interface with diverse sensor degrees of freedom across several input modalities. Our system allows a user to demonstrate input gestures and manipulations directly to the system, teaching it the desired mappings by example. We developed a musical control application in which userdefined ges...

This document describes the design of the interface for the first MultiMatch prototype. This system aims at providing various user groups with multilingual access to a rich variety of cultural heritage resources (e.g. images, videos, web pages and structured texts). Specifically, this document describes the interface design process, a variety of relevant literature, the results of initial inter...