Direct manipulation is closely associated with interfaces that use windows, icons, menus, and a pointing device (WIMP GUI) as these almost always incorporate direct manipulation to at least some degree. However, direct manipulation should not be confused with these other terms, as it does not imply the use of windows or even graphical output.

Direct manipulation — proposed among others by Ben Shneiderman — allows a viewer to interact with a visulization corresponding to the real–world analogue it follows. It avoids the barrier of having to translate ideas into commands meaningful to a computer by building a graphical user interface that is semantically in line with the representation.

Direct manipulation is closely associated with interfaces that use windows, icons, menus, and a pointing device ( WIMP GUI) as these almost always incorporate direct manipulation to at least some degree. However, direct manipulation should not be confused with these other terms, as it does not imply the use of windows or even graphical output.

Direkte Manipulationsschnittstelle - Direct manipulation interface Aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie In der Informatik ist die direkte Manipulation ein Mensch-Computer-Interaktionsstil, der eine kontinuierliche Darstellung von interessierenden Objekten und schnelle, reversible und inkrementelle Aktionen und Feedback beinhaltet.

Notes on the gulfs of execution and evaluation from \Direct Manipulation Interfaces", Hutchins et al. Figure 6 of Hutchins et al. [1] (shown above) is important and provides a pretty good distillation of the concepts. The paper can be a little confusing because some examples blur the lines between semantic and articulatory distances.

Concept of Direct Manipulation. The term used to describe this style of interaction for graphical systems was first used by Shneiderman (1982). He called them “direct manipulation” systems, suggesting that they possess the following characteristics: The system is portrayed as an extension of the real world: A person is allowed to work in a ...