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	WIMP (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		WIMP interaction was developed at Xerox PARC (see Xerox Alto, developed in 1973) and "popularized by the Macintosh in 1984" (van Dam, 1997).
		As a result, the acronym WIMP is sometimes used in a derogatory manner, especially by those who prefer more traditional command-line interfaces.
		Another possibility is to have the P in WIMP stand for Program, allowing it to be used as a noun (like the noun GUI, for graphical user interface) rather than as an adjective or qualifier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WIMP_(computing) (305 words)

	Interaction-Design.org Encyclopedia: WIMP - Interaction-Design.org: A site about HCI, Usability, UI Design, User ...
		WIMP is the style of graphical user interface that uses the above-mentioned common widgets.
		WIMP is also sometimes said to be a paradigm for human-computer interaction.
		I think that the entry on programmerism is a good example for a WIMP gui.
	www.interaction-design.org /encyclopedia/wimp.html (365 words)

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		A fundamental goal in computer graphics and visualization is the development of adequate models to represent the complex objects that arise in mechanical design and scientific computation.
		Computer interfaces have traditionally been limited to keyboard and mouse-based solutions, despite the fact that people in the real world naturally work with two hands and in three-dimensions.
		In general, time-critical computing relies on degradable algorithms for behaviors and rendering to implement these tradeoffs, as well as on scheduling algorithms to dynamically decide which tradeoff is most appropriate and performance-prediction algorithms to estimate the performance of the selected trade-off.
	www.cs.brown.edu /stc/annual-report/Year6/Accomplishments.html (7308 words)

	:: wimpi :: related - ( wimpü wimpy home husband popeye hamburger restaurant ...
		History and Usage: WIMPs were developed by Rank Xerox during the seventies and became commercially available in the first half of the eighties.
		By the end of the decade, the idea of WIMP was already thought a little outdated by computer scientists, who had moved on to the excitements of GUI (graphical user interface), an even more advanced interface which would be needed for the development of multimedia.
		History and Usage : WIMPs were developed by Rank Xerox during the seventies and became commercially available in the first half of the eighties.
	www.spell-dictionary.com /db/wimpi (501 words)

	Wimp (Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointing Devices) \| World of Computer Science
		WIMP interfaces allow the user to exchange information with the computer by means of a pointing device (often a mouse) and a video monitor.
		The windows in WIMP refers to the discrete rectangular areas that appear on the computer's monitor, inside each of which are images and texts generated by the computer's software.
		This prototype computer system was demonstrated to Xerox management for possible commercial development, but management failed to grasp the enormous potential of such a system and declined to develop it further.
	www.bookrags.com /research/wimp-windows-icons-menus-and-pointi-wcs (870 words)

	Ubiquitous Computing: Resources on demand
		Johannesburg, South Africa, 6 April 2005 - Ubiquitous computing can be defined as a method of enhancing computer use by making many computers available throughout the physical environment, the resources of which can be switched on and off — or their intensity increased or decreased - as required to meet specific tasks.
		Early examples of ubiquitous computing were intelligent fridges that informed the homeowner when stocks were low, interactive microwave ovens and smart pans (that beep when the food is cooked).
		Technologists know that ubiquitous computing requires levels of integration which are not restricted to the communication layer between disparate systems and applications, but will reach into areas such as networking protocols and protocol stacks to optimise available bandwidth on existing networks as never before.
	www.ca.com /za/news/2005/20050406_ubiquitous_computing.htm (863 words)

	EServer TC Library: Today's GUI - The 'WIMP' Interface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		While there is no denying the success of these interfaces in bringing desktop computing to millions of users across the world, the GUI has grown to be a cluttered, discordant world of clashing icons and wasted screen space.
		In the WIMP world, objects (or more usually, applications) are presented in rectangular windows.
		And amongst the visual noise and clutter, are hidden the clues necessary to make the cognitive leap to accommodate a metaphor which relies on the idea that 'windows' can exist on a 'desktop.' Objects and applications alike are represented by icons.
	tc.eserver.org /10629.html (196 words)

	Haptic Issues for Virtual Manipulation
		Human-computer interaction currently faces the challenge of getting past this "WIMP plateau" and introducing new techniques which take advantage of the capabilities of today's computing systems and which more effectively match human capabilities.
		The literature offers many examples of point design, offering only a description of the thing (what the artifact is) and not the process.
		To get past the WIMP plateau, we need to understand the nature of human-computer interaction as well as the underlying human capabilities.
	research.microsoft.com /research/pubs/view.aspx?pubid=3 (167 words)

	Pace University - Ivan G. Seidenberg School of CSIS - Pervasive Computing Lab
		Pervasive computing goes beyond the realm of today's personal computer to ubiquitous devices that are becoming smaller and more powerful with embedded technology and connectivity.
		It concerns the idea that almost any device, from clothing to appliances to cars to homes and to the human body, can be imbedded with chips to connect the device to an infinite network of other devices.
		Pervasive computing combines current network and wireless technologies with progressively smaller computing devices, voice recognition, artificial intelligence, and Internet capability, to create an environment where the connectivity is unobtrusive and always available.
	appserv.pace.edu /execute/page.cfm?doc_id=17151 (348 words)

	LAMP versus WIMP - Research Computing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Here is an excerpt from an email exchange on the mediawiki-l email list concerning a comparison between MediaWiki (which you are now viewing) under Linux with the Apache web server, and MediaWiki under Windows with the IIS web server (it can be done, but it isn't recommended).
		The LAMP hardware is a Pentium 3 laptop at 850Mhz, 200MB RAM.
		The WIMP hardware is a Pentium 4 server at 2+ Ghz, 512MB RAM.
	research.gc.cuny.edu /index.php/LAMP_versus_WIMP (291 words)

	CNN - Interfacing the future - November 2, 1998
		Invented at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Facility (PARC) in the 1970s, popularized by Apple Computer in the 1980s, and milked by Microsoft in the 1990s, WIMP has reached a point where further building on it yields only diminishing returns.
		The obvious benefit to speech recognition is that it frees your hands from having to operate the computer: Imagine yourself elbow-deep in blueberries only to realize that you don't remember the required proportions called for in the pie recipe on your computer.
		The oldest element in nearly all computing interfaces is the part that's used more than all the others: the display.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9811/02/interface.idg/index.html (1508 words)

	eBay.co.uk - WIMP, Records, Comics, CDs items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		ELO-The Diary Of Horace Wimp 7"p/sleeve JET 150 1979
		Confessions Of A Prayer Wimp by Mary Pierce (2005)
		ELO 'The Diary Of Horace Wimp' OZ 7" 1979 NM
	search.ebay.co.uk /WIMP (305 words)

	Multistream input: An experimental study of document scrolling methods
		A particular case is document browsing, which is one of the most frequent tasks in interacting with computers.
		ThinkPad* computers) and a standard mouse were used in this method as shown in Figure 4.
		This advantage is not only important for portable computing, but also important for a two-handed desktop environment where a keyboard with a mouse has already crowded the workspace.
	www.research.ibm.com /journal/sj/384/zhai.html (4230 words)

	Beyond the WIMP? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Considering the immense changes is in computing and display hardware over the ensuing decades, it has proven surprisingly difficult to think beyond the WIMP.
		While the computing power to support these is no longer expensive, the physical display devices still price VR out of general use in 2004.
		A more fundamental problem, familiar for many years to designers of flight simulators, is the way VR can confuse the human proprioceptive system; VR motion at even moderate speeds can induce dizziness and nausea as the brain tries to reconcile the visual simulation of motion with the inner ear's report of the body's real-world motions.
	www.catb.org /~esr/writings/taouu/html/ch02s10.html (374 words)

	Amazon.ca: Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia: Books: Mark J. Guzdial,Kimberly M. Rose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Squeak- Open Personal Computing and Multimedia draws on the Squeak community- the student, the researcher, the multimedia developer, the open source developer, the hobbyist, and the professional, to assemble a compelling vision of what programming can be, on a different path than the mainstream.
		Squeak is the only tool that allows users to explore computer music, digital sound, advanced user interfaces, 3-D computer graphics, Flash animation, and virtual machine creation (such as for embedded systems) across Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.
		The legendary demonstration of Smalltalk to Steve Jobs of Apple Computer by Adele Goldberg and her team at Xerox Pare in 1979 (based on which Apple developed the Lisa and then the Macintosh) was running much of the exact same code that you're running when you run Squeak.
	www.amazon.ca /Squeak-Open-Personal-Computing-Multimedia/dp/0130280917 (1342 words)

	Models and Abstractions for Next-Generation User Interface Software
		We are seeking to invent and implement a new model, abstraction, and language to provide a formal basis for describing and building next-generation user interfaces, which will involve parallel, continuous user-computer interactions.
		A variety of specification languages for describing WIMP and other previous generations of user interfaces has been developed, and user interface management systems have been built based up on them, using approaches such as BNF, state transition diagrams, event handlers, declarative specifications, and frames.
		Non-WIMP interfaces are characterized by continuous interaction between user and computer via several parallel, asynchronous channels or devices.
	cslu.cse.ogi.edu /nsf/isgw97/reports/jacob.html (999 words)

	CS174 Applications Notes
		Computers are everywhere, and have profound impacts on society, sometimes for good, other times for the worse.
		A massive on-going research program is attempting to program a computer with all the real-world knowledge of a five year old; computer learning is an unsolved problem, so the idea is basically to type in an entire encyclopaedia's worth of knowledge.
		Computers pose some familiar problems (such as getting them insured against theft) and some new ones, such as Data security: protecting data against damage, either accidental (disk failure, power failure, physical damage) or malicious (hacking, virus worm or logic bomb, physical damage).
	www.ecs.soton.ac.uk /~hcd/cs164.htm (9737 words)

	WIMP - OneLook Dictionary Search
		WIMP, WIMP, wimp : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		WIMP, wimp : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Words similar to WIMP: chicken, crybaby, wimpiness, wimping, wimpish, wimpishness, wimpy, nerd, more...
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=WIMP (302 words)

	What is windows, icons, mouse, and pull-down menus? - a definition from Whatis.com
		- WIMP is an acronym describing the desktop user interface familiar to Windows and Mac computer users, significant features of which are windows, icons, a mouse, and pull-down menus.
		This combination of computer-user interface ideas originated at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Laboratory, was incorporated in early Apple computers, and adopted by Microsoft in its Windows operating system, in Unix's X Window System, in IBM's OS/2, and in other operating systems.
		The WIMP interface is now so familiar to most of us that it may be difficult to understand that other models for a user interface are also possible.
	searchwinit.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci213658,00.html (382 words)

	networked_performance » Blog Archive » Ubiquitous Computing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The promise of computing technology dissolving into behavior, invisibly permeating the natural world around us cannot be reached.
		Technology is, of course, that which by definition is separate from the natural; it is explicitly designed that way.
		This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 at 4:36 pm and is filed under Ubiquitous Computing.
	www.turbulence.org /blog/wordpress/?p=728 (293 words)

	Bradley Rhodes: Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wearable Computing Meets Ubiquitous Computing: Reaping the best of both worlds (html), Bradley J. Rhodes, Nelson Minar and Josh Weaver, in The Proceedings of The Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '99), San Francisco, CA, October 18-19 1999.
		WIMP Interface Considered Fatal (html), Bradley J. Rhodes, presented at the IEEE VRAIS 98 Workshop on Interfaces for Wearable Computers, March 15, 1998.
		Wearable computing and the remembrance agent, Barry Crabtree and Bradley Rhodes, in BT Technology Journal, 16(3), July 1998, pp.
	www.bradleyrhodes.com /publications.html (664 words)

	Version instance of 'wimp' object
		This is a version instance of the 'wimp' object.
		I hope to attend the workshop: Groupware Applications over Academic Networks A one day workshop organised by the ACOL project, University College London, 5th November 1996, Department of Computer Science, University College London.
		Finally, it discusses related work and indicates how a sophisticated configuration management system is being built on top of the version management system.
	www.comp.lancs.ac.uk /computing/users/paul/vmcs/upload/wimp.html (2686 words)

	wimp - Definitions from Dictionary.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		wimp /wɪmp/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[wimp] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation Informal.
		WIMP /wɪmp/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[wimp] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
		wimped out and refused to jump off the high diving board.
	dictionary.reference.com.cob-web.org:8888 /search?q=wimp (276 words)

	confectious: Letter from Tokyo: Ubicomp 2005
		The field of Ubiquitous Computing has gained strength as an often cited technology goal since Xerox PARC scientist Mark Weiser first defined it as a field in the late 1980s.
		Nevertheless, conferences are official occasions for disciplinary self-definition-- a place where shared priorities and values are negotiated through both the peer-review process and discussions between colleagues.
		The title of his talk, 'Design dissolving into behavior,' is eerily reminiscent of the computing that was supposed to 'recede into the background of our lives.' But unlike the invisibility promised by "Ubicomp," if flamboyant consumption drives Fukusawa's dissolution of design.
	www.confectious.net /thinking/archives/2005/09/letter_from_tok.html (1036 words)

	What is WIMP? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
		Short for Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointing device, the type of user interface made famous by the Macintosh computer and later imitated by the Windows operating systems.
		Most people now use the term GUI (graphical user interface) to refer to this type of interface, but it's important to note that when the first GUIs were invented in the 1970s, WIMP was just one possible variation.
		In those days, it was called a WIMP GUI.
	www.webopedia.com /TERM/W/WIMP.html (99 words)

	WIMP (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		According to Green and Jacob (1991), "WIMP, stands for Windows, Icons, Mice and Pointing".
		Edwards (1988) mentions "window, icon, menu and pointer - or wimp - style of interface".
		Ashley George Taylor: WIMP Interfaces (winter 1997) http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu.cob-web.org:8888/classes/cs6751_97_winter/Topics/dialog-wimp/
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/WIMP_(computing) (401 words)

	Human-Centered Computing Education Digital Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		If you're so inclined, we welcome your emailed suggestions, comments, or problems you have on the site.
		We have embedded all library contents in an (evolving) taxonomy of topics in human-centered computing and human-computer interaction.
		If you are just learning about HCC and HCI, this may be able to help you get a feel for the HCC/HCI field and what topics are important.
	hcc.cc.gatech.edu (276 words)

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