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OCR: USEI NTERF The User Interface o effectively use the computer as a mind I tool, you must communicate wit h it: you must tell InfoWeb the computer what tasks to perform pue you must accur ately interpret the information the computer provides The means by which humans pue computers communicate referred to the user interface Through the user interface the computer accepts your input and presents You with output. This output provides You with the results processing confirms the Lse completion of the processing or indicates that data was stored Interfaces Ideally, good user interface makes computer easy to use intuitiv e pue unobtrusive Howev er this ideal is not always the re ality. Donald Norman we ll-kn own cognitiv scientist, wrote d elightful book called The Pay chology Everyday Things ir w ...