Talk:Direct manipulation interface

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This article needs some serious overhaul. I started by citing the original article from 1982 by Ben Shneiderman. Many people these days think they know what direct manipulation is but really cannot come up with a propert definition. Just because you touch something with a finger to resize/reposition it does not mean it is "direct manipulation" whereas when you use a mouse it is not. In fact, even if you used the arrow keys to manipulate a slider, which changes the position of an object, it is still considered direct manipulation in Shneiderian terms. I'll add edits to this article in the future that will outline and give examples for the different uses of the term when I've got the time. 2013-10-29 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.124.26.250 (talk) 08:43, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution

Would somebody please cite the attribution of "Direct manipulation" to Ben Schneiderman? I need a reason to believe.

It is in his 1983 article in the August 1983 issue of IEEE Computer. I disagree with the text of this Wikipedia article on direct manipulation by the way. While it seems, to the best of my knowledge, that Shneiderman coined this particular term and explained it, he did not invent the concept (or concepts since there was no consensus on this), and it was already being discussed a long time before 1983. AlainV 00:46, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

External links

discussion in someone's thesis (http://infolab.kub.nl/pub/theses/w3thesis/Hci/direct_manipulation.html) (this link may or may not be particularly authoritative)

I've removed the above link from the external links section (and removed the section, since it is empty after the delition), the link is broken, i did try to removed ')' from the end. Beta_M ^talk, |^contrib (Ë-Mail)

Videoplace

Would a link to Myron Krueger's Videoplace fit the article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.20.17.84 (talk) 16:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Disagree that dragging rectangular outline of a window is not direct manipulation

A significant portion of the "In contrast to WIMP/GUI interfaces" section is dedicated to the inference that somehow dragging a rectangular outline of a window to move it is not direct manipulation. At best, this is a poor example. Personally, I would completely disagree with the inference, and no example might be better than a really bad one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.235.92.36 (talk) 21:08, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]