InterUnit-UI for improved app ergonomics

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InterUnit-UI is an app-UI alternative, to the commonly used WIMP UI, that results in better UI ergonomics.

It has been designed with the goal of improving the ergonomic-efficiency of apps (PC/mobile/web).

It uses several techniques to do this:

1. It does away away with the Menubar at the top, and the taskbar or status bar at the bottom of the screen, to reduce visual screen-clutter. Instead, it uses a visual layout technique, focused around the center of the screen for the presentation of all information to the user.
2. On WIMP:

•  it eliminates the use of windows. Operations such as resizing and  aligning of windows, and, in general, window layout, are no longer needed in the usage of this UI.
• It minimizes the need to switch between mouse and keyboard operation in the course of any user-input sequence.
• It eliminates use of the mouse for fine-grained screen-space selection and reduces usage of mouse-drag operations. 

InterUnit-UI presents a user-interface as a sequence of temporal "interface-units".

Each InterUnit presents an interface behavior to service a specific user-goal.

It has full access to the screen and all user-input peripherals.

InterUnits can be independently optimized to achieve ergonomic-efficiency.

A special InterUnit called the EngagementManager interfaces with the underlying OS's display and input peripheral access system.

It serves as a front-end controller for all other InterUnits.

It loads and unloads other InterUnits and manages the current engagement session with the user.

It also maintains some history of app usage.

We provide an SDK to produce InterUnits that includes 3 elements:

1. An EngagementManager class.
2. An abstract SInterUnit struct.
3. A Hex-navigator InterUnit.

This SDK can be used directly by developers to build better apps (PC/mobile/web),

and by PC-OEMs for building better OS front-ends.

We are also producing an app called Ergonomix

that presents an InterUnit-UI based interface for designing InterUnits

on any (PC/mobile/web) platform.

We provide a  CodeEditor included in the InterUnit SDK

on a per-platform basis.

This CodeEditor can be used to develop an InterUnit,

in conjunction with the platform's native tool-chain. 

1. On WIMP:

• The keyboard's Arrows are always used for vertical and horizontal navigation.
• The ESCAPE key always exits the current InterUnit by popping it off the InterUnit-Stack. If the current InterUnit is the EngagementManager, the app exits.

2. On Mobile platforms:

• A virtual escape button convention.

Since the user interacts with a single InterUnit at a time,

each InterUnit can be optimized for ergonomic-efficiency independently. 

This makes the development of an InterUnit a lot simpler

since the initial code can be refined over time.

The SDK is always provided as source code,

which the developer may modify.

It includes source-code for a CodeEditor InterUnit.

This editor can parse/edit/store C/C++ code, HTML and CSS.