Chapter 5: User-Interface Components
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Decision Support Systems

Vicki L. Sauter

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User-Interface Components

Figure 5.1: User interface descriptions

Figure 5.2: Basic action language types

Figure 5.3: Independent command and object menus

Figure 5.4: Combined command and object

Figure 5.5: Nested menu structure

Figure 5.6: Question-answer format

Figure 5.7: The personalized question-answer format

Figure 5.8: Command language format

Figure 5.9: The I/O structure format

Figure 5.10: The free-form natural language format

Figure 5.11: Windowed output

Figure 5.12: Icon options

Figure 5.13: Metri-glyphs

Figure 5.14: Maps drawn to scale of sales volume

Figure 5.15: A graphical representation

Figure 5.16: Disaggregate posting of results

Figure 5.17: On screen analysis change prompting

Figure 5.18: Additional on screen prompting

Figure 5.19: Scaling deception

Figure 5.20: Distortion in histogram

Figure 5.21: Stacked icon histogram

Figure 5.22: Individual histogram

Figure 5.23: Aggregated histogram

Modes of Communication

Figure 5.24: Use of international symbols

Figure 5.25: An alternative menu format

The Car Example

Figure 5.26: Initial screens from commercial automobile purchasing systems

Figure 5.27: Menu options

Figure 5.28: Level 5 Object code to perform the search shown in Figure 5.27-lefthand example

Figure 5.29: Level 5 Object code to perform the search shown in Figure 5.27b and Figure 5.27c

Figure 5.30: Change in menus after other selections

Figure 5.31: Result of the code shown above

Figure 5.32: Possible window definitions

Figure 5.33: Mechanisms for introducing specialized windows

Figure 5.34: Level 5 Object code to control the windows in Figure 5.33

Figure 5.35: Alternate mechanism for introducing specialized windows

Figure 5.36: Level 5 Object code to control the windows in Figure 5.35

Figure 5.37: Some user interface design concerns

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A series of links are available to examples, references and related information.

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