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Interfaces

An interface is the means by which users interact with a machine or system. There are several types of interfaces including human-machine interfaces, command-line interfaces, tactile interfaces, and touch interfaces. The main types of digital interfaces are graphical user interfaces and web-based interfaces. Graphical user interfaces use icons and text controlled by devices like a mouse while web-based interfaces generate web pages viewed through a browser.

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Interfaces

An interface is the means by which users interact with a machine or system. There are several types of interfaces including human-machine interfaces, command-line interfaces, tactile interfaces, and touch interfaces. The main types of digital interfaces are graphical user interfaces and web-based interfaces. Graphical user interfaces use icons and text controlled by devices like a mouse while web-based interfaces generate web pages viewed through a browser.

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Interfaces

By: Ben Griffin and


Laurel Baston

What is an Interface

An interface is the aggregate of


means by which people (the
users) interact with a particular
machine, device,
computer program or other
complex tool (the system).

Examples of an Interface

Driving a Car

Brushing your Teeth

Opening a Door

Using a Computer

Main Types of Interfaces

Human-machine Interface
Command-line Interface
Tactile Interface
Touch Interface

Human-machine Interface

The user interface of a mechanical


system, a vehicle or an industrial
installation is sometimes referred to
as the human-machine interface
(HMI).

Command-line Interface

A CLI (command line interface) is a user


interface to a computer's operating system or
an application in which the user responds to a
visual prompt by typing in a command on a
specified line, receives a response back from
the system, and then enters another command,
and so forth. The MS-DOS Prompt application in
a Windows operating system is an example of
the provision of a command line interface.
Today, most users prefer the graphical user
interface (GUI) offered by Windows, Mac OS,
BeOS, and others. Typically, most of today's
Unix-based systems offer both a command line
interface and a graphical user interface.

Example: Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux

Tactile Interface
Tactile interfaces supplement
or replace other forms of output
with haptic (means pertaining to
the sense of touch) feedback
methods. Used in computerized
simulators etc.
Example: Braille

Braille

Touch Interface

Touch interfaces are graphical


user interfaces using a touch
screen display as a combined
input and output device. Used in
many types of industrial
processes and machines, selfservice machines etc.

Touch Screen

Two Main Types of Digital


Interfaces

Graphical User Interface

Web-based user interfaces

Graphical User Interface

This is a computer interface that


uses icons and text to control
the system.
Examples: Interaction between
the Mouse and an icon.

Web-based Computer
interface

Web-based user interfaces


accept input and provide output
by generating web pages which
are transported via the Internet
and viewed by the user using a
web browser program.

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