Fidelity of dynamics in integrated displays

The design of graphical analogs based on ecological information processing attempts to integrate presentation requirements by providing a context in which process states are made visible to the user by inspection of the interface. The dynamics of the system are presented as transformations between process states. Both the dynamics and the state are designed to be “intuitive” with respect to the interface by choosing a display context that is consistent in structure to the underlying process and that utilizes a user´s attunements to (expectations of) physical events. The user develops these expectations by virtue of their nature as physical beings in a physical world, and by interacting with objects that have physical properties. Thus an interface is intuitive if the behaviors and appearance of the objects presented are consistent with the user´s expectations