Man-Machine Interaction. Back to Basic. The Command Line Concept Reviewed. TWAIOFinal Report

摘要

In an environment where information is important, great care must be taken toensure that no information is lost. At Signaal, systems present (among others) radar information. After reading some literature and talking to some people, the authors came to the conclusion that the old-fashioned command line as they know it in UNIX systems for example, is a good way to interact in the case of the Signaal systems. Since the old fashioned command line, on its own, is not something to get away with for a designers course, features that would, among others, improve the user friendliness, error sensitivity, and input speed, were proposed. This resulted in a formal specification and a first prototype of a COmmand Line Tool (or COLT). This COLT can be integrated with existing programs.