What is an abstract conceptual model of a graphical user interface?

Core foundational question motivating Fruit's design; answered through formal denotational model of signals and signal transformers.

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Courtney, Antony · Elliott, Conal

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Conceptual Modelconcept0.789
Norman's design model vs user model; a mental conception of how a system works.
Agent-based computational modelmethod0.748
The computational approach used to simulate morphogenesis with cells as agents on a 2D grid; allows quantitative testing of stress-sharing hypothesis.
What are effective tools and modelling paradigms for implementing and running (simulations of) self-modifying open systems?question0.745
Organizing question for §6.2 on computational tools.
User Mental Modelconcept0.742
How users internalize and reason about word processor architecture and affordances.
It's tricky, because for a typical language model the entity is sort of tricameral: the base simulator, the simulated simulator, and the simulated awareness.quote0.735
Antra's earlier definitive statement of the tricameral model.
Good interface design reveals the underlying computational architecture to the user.claim0.735
Core interpretive claim about the relationship between transparency and usability.
Software design has two distinct aspects: conceptual design and representation design.claim0.734
Central thesis of the paper separating the design of concepts from their implementation.
The resulting features are highly abstract: multilingual, multimodal, and generalizing between concrete and abstract references.claim0.731
Features respond to concepts across languages and in images, not just text.