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12.4 Outlook

There is a wishlist for the statistical user interface of a statistical software package:

In the past we have observed that statistical software packages got various GUIs. Even SPSS offers a web-based interface now, like the R Web server or the XploRe Java client version. Currently we observe that statistical software packages are embedded via direct calls (Excel: XploRe with MD*ReX, R in the RDCOM server or DataDesk /XL) or via CORBA (R: Omega Hat project) in other software. In the future statistical software packages will use the GUI of the ''host'' software, but the problems we will encounter are the same.

Since the user interface design depends heavily on our perception and behavior, there is still a lot of experimental research necessary to find answers to the problems that occur.


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