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Gracoli: a graphical command line user interface

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CSCW '13: Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work companion

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2441955.2442019

Published: 23 February 2013 Publication History

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Command Line Interface (CLI) is the most popular and basic user interface to interact with computers. Despite its simplicity, it has some limitations in terms of user experience. For example, sometimes it is hard to understand and interpret the textual output of the command. In this paper we describe the limitations of command line interfaces and propose Gracoli¹: A graphical command line interface that takes advantage of both text-based interface and graphical user interface to provide better user experience and perform complex tasks. We demonstrate some of the useful applications and features of Gracoli. Sometime such a hybrid system provides and combines the strengths of CLI and GUI to perform specific tasks. We explore some useful applications of Gracoli to create a new kind of user experience. Command line interface makes accessibility faster and Graphical User-Interface makes output more interactive and understandable.

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CSCW '13: Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work companion

February 2013

356 pages

ISBN:9781450313322

DOI:10.1145/2441955

General Chairs:
Amy Bruckman
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Scott Counts
Microsoft Research, USA
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Cliff Lampe
University of Michigan, USA
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Loren Terveen
University of Minnesota, USA

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Published: 23 February 2013

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Asmat MLange C(2017)CEUR Make GUI - A Usable Web Frontend Supporting the Workflow of Publishing Proceedings of Scientific WorkshopsNew Trends in Databases and Information Systems10.1007/978-3-319-67162-8_16(146-157)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2017
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Takashina TSasaki HKokumai YIwasaki Y(2014)OCR based interaction for coded objects2014 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)10.1109/GCCE.2014.7031100(383-384)Online publication date: Oct-2014
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Verma PMackay WBrewster SBødker S(2013)GracoliCHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2468356.2479631(3143-3146)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2468356.2479631

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