Microsoft® Manual of Style, Fourth Edition

Chapter 5. The user interface

In the last decade, the types of electronic devices that a person can interact with have proliferated. In addition to computers, many people now have smartphones and game consoles, and they’re interacting with them by using their voices, fingers, hands, and even their whole bodies.

The term used for these new types of interfaces is natural user interface (NUI). The natural user interface is designed and programmed to enable a user to interact more naturally with a computer or program through gestures and speech instead of an input device such as a keyboard, mouse, or game controller. For example, a user can give a command or select an option by touching the screen with a finger or hand. With a device that has a camera ...