What is Interface

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An interface is a specification that exists between software components that specifies a selected means of interaction, by means of properties of other software modules, which abstract and encapsulate their data. Learn more in: Design Guidelines for Asynchronous E-Learning Applications

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A designed surface (of an application or software program) that enables people to interact with computers. Learn more in: Designing Animated (and Interactive) Infographics for Remote Learning

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The specification for a method (“what” a method does); how that function is called from another program. Interfaces are provided in source form as opposed to implementations, which are secure. This allows one to use a method without regard for “how” that method is coded. It also allows multiple implementations of the same interface. Learn more in: Business Model Application of UML Stereotypes

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The meeting point between a computer and someone outside of it. Common interfaces between people and computers are the monitor screen, the keyboard, the graphical system used to present information to the user, and so on. Learn more in: Managerial Computer Business Games

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A device allowing the univocal interaction between an operator and a system of production. Learn more in: The Decreasing Fortune of the Drawing in the Architectural Processes: From Control and Development to Verification

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The way that someone can access online or computer content, such as using a tablet’s screen (v.); also the screen itself (n.). Learn more in: Teacher Curatorship: Fostering Literacies With Kindergartners Using YouTube Videos

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The way a user interacts with a product, what he or she does, and how it responds. Learn more in: Critical Human Factors on Mobile Applications for Tourism and Entertainment

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A system, or program that enable users to effectively communicate with a computing process. In computer graphics, is the friendly user aspect of visual elements to understand and control a complex computation. Learn more in: Extended Reality as the Immersive Environment Conjunction of Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality: A Phenomenological Response Facing Modern Culture

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An operable membrane that defines the boundary two entities (i.e. an operating system mediates the relationship between computer hardware and the user). Learn more in: Information Visualization and Interface Culture

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The surface or space through which a human interacts with a device or product. Learn more in: Use of Mobile Phones by Individuals with Visual Impairments

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A user interface, consisting of the set of dials, knobs, operating system commands, graphical display formats, and other devices provided by a computer or a program to allow the user to communicate and use the computer or program. A graphical user interface (GUI) provides its user a more or less “picture-oriented” way to interact with technology. A GUI is usually a more satisfying or user-friendly interface to a computer system. Learn more in: Mobile Music Interfaces Evaluation

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Component that mediates the relationship between two entities. For example, a user interface is a point of interaction between the user and the machine. Learn more in: User Interfaces in Smart Assistive Environments: Requirements, Devices, Applications

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With respect to computer programming, an interface is a format, or contract, that must be followed in order to ensure the proper functionality of a computer program. Learn more in: Pervasive Cyberinfrastructure for Personalized Education

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A mechanism that mediates the conversation between a person and a product or system. An interface is a means to make the conversation between the human and machine or product easier. Learn more in: Interface Trends in Human Interaction, the Internet of Things, and Big Data

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An interface is a common boundary where direct contact between two modules occurs and where these two modules communicate with each other. Learn more in: The Concept of Modularity in the Context of IS Project Outsourcing

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An interface is a common boundary where direct contact between two modules occurs and where these two modules communicate with each other. Learn more in: The Concept of Modularity in the Context of IS Project Outsourcing

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The specification for a method (“what” a method does); how that function is called from another program. Interfaces are provided in source form as opposed to implementations, which are secure. This allows one to use a method without regard for “how” that method is coded. It also allows multiple implementations of the same interface. Learn more in: Object-Oriented Software Reuse in Business Systems

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The boundary of a component consisting of the declaration of a set of public features, data and/or events, used to interact with the environment. Learn more in: Requirements Refinement and Component Reuse: The FoReVer Contract-Based Approach

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Digital-physical devices that enable human-machine or human-human interaction. Learn more in: Dialogue With Interfaces: Beyond the Visual Towards Socio-Spatial Engagement

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A mechanism or framework to link two systems; be able to exchange, use or process the information. Learn more in: From Hydrological Models to Policy-Relevant Decision Support Systems (DSSs): A Historical Perspective

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Portion of a computer application that is used by the user to communicate with the application. It is particularly important for a dashboard, because it may impinge on the ability of users to properly interpret the variations in the indicators shown to them. Learn more in: Better Executive Information with the Dashboard Approach

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The designed enablements for interaction with a system (often technology-based system). Learn more in: Using a Diversity and Inclusion Approach in Designing Learning for All (in Full Human Dimensionality)

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For the sake of this chapter, an interface defines how a software system can be communicated with electronically. An interface consists of at least one schema. Learn more in: Unified Data Model for Large-Scale Multi-Schema Integration (ULMI)

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A mechanism that mediates the conversation between a person and a product or system. An interface is a means to make the conversation between the human and machine or product easier. Learn more in: Design, New Media, and Human-Computer Interactions

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A mechanism that mediates the conversation between a person and a product or system. An interface is a means to make the conversation between the human and machine or product easier. Learn more in: Interface Technology Trends Implications for News and Information Services

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A device that enables a person to communicate with a computer. Learn more in: Fostering Computational Thinking in Homes and Other Informal Learning Spaces

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The designed interconnection between humans and computers. Learn more in: Virtual Collaboration

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Defines the communication boundary between two entities, such as a piece of software, a hardware device, or a user. The interface between a human and a computer is called a user interface. Learn more in: Real Time Interface for Fluidized Bed Reactor Simulator

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A named set of operations that characterize the behavior of an entity. (Source: ISO 19119: Geographic information – Services) Learn more in: Geospatial Image Metadata Catalog Services

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Do the game’s interfaces (e.g. Wiimotes, balance board, interactive screen) allow an immersive, seamless and accurate response between the user and the game? Learn more in: Making Exergames Appealing: An Assessment of Commercial Exergames

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It is the connecting link between the user and the technology with which he is interacting. AU30: Reference appears to be out of alphabetical order. Please check Learn more in: Ergonomic Design of a Driver Training Simulator for Rural India

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A point of interaction between the user and an object. Also used as a system that manages and processes signs, that is, it translates signs to different levels of abstraction. Learn more in: The Edgard Project: Towards a Discussion of Ethical Tech in Art and Design