Intuiface Glossary

This glossary lists the key concepts and terminology used throughout Intuiface products.

It's a good way to get started and learn how to use Intuiface.

Almost every entry contains a link to an article on the Help Center.

Action: event that will occur in reaction to a trigger
Android: one of the several types of device/OS supported by Intuiface Player
Analytics: data collection and analysis of that data to build an understanding of your target audience
Animation: configured asset movement or transition
API: set of communication protocols meant to interact with different services or software components
API Explorer: interface connecting to the API Web Experiences
API Key: API calling code ensuring the identification of a user ID
API Number: *.ifx version number
Asset: media element that can be used within an Intuiface experience

Background: content placed in the background, potentially visible across all scenes
Background experience layer: backgrounds shared across multiple scenes of an experience
Background transparency: Windows-based experiences can have a transparent background, permitting display or interaction with any other running application.
Binding: ability of one item's property to mirror the value of a different item's property
Binding trigger parameter: trigger parameter bound to a property
Binding action parameter: action's parameter that can be bound to a property
BrightSign: one of the several types of device/OS supported by Intuiface Player

Chrome OS: one of the several types of device/OS supported by Intuiface Player
Collection: graphic container with special properties in which you can add Assets
Composer: Intuiface authoring tool for creating interactive experiences
Composer Settings: enables you to configure performance in the Web Browser Asset and 3D Model Asset.
Connected Objects: physical objects that can be connected to an experience, (for example: Philips Hue Lights or Phidgets...)
Content Library: a Composer panel that lists all available graphic and auditory media
Credential Key: can be used to permit access to different services available in the Intuiface platform. In the context of credential keys, we refer to these services as "scopes"

Data Points: information about a single logged event send to the Analytics Data Hub for processing.
Design Accelerators: ready-to-use components you can add to any Intuiface project.
Device: any piece of hardware supported by either Composer or Player
Design Assistant: a tool that simplifies changing of a collection's style
Display:
Display resolution: properties of the overall experience panel that defines the orientation (landscape or portrait) and resolution of the display surface in pixels
Drawing tools: a tool to embed in an experience to enable users to draw on the entire screen or within the bounds of specific images

Enterprise: the highest (paid) plan level
Essential: the lowest (paid) plan level
Examples catalog: a set of pre-built experience free for download into Composer
Experience: an Intuiface project built with the Composer and played by Players
Experience Background: used to display content and information that is visible across all scenes
Experience Foreground
Experience Layer: a layer that can be displayed in several Scenes of an Experience
Experience Panel: a panel that shows when the Composer/Player starts to select the experience to edit or play
Experience Style

FPS: frames per second, can be set in Composer to optimize rendering performances in some places
Frame rate

.IFD: Intuiface Descriptor File
.IFX: Data file generated by the Composer while creating an experience
IFTTT: Free Web Service
Intuiface Account: an account on my.intuiface.com needed to use Intuiface Composer or Player
Interface Assets : an asset enabling real-time access to external data, business logic, and devices
IntuiPad: a remote control running on iOS and Android devices to control Intuiface running on a Windows device
iPad: one of the several types of device/OS supported by Intuiface Player

Launch Application: an action to run third-party Windows applications
Layer: a way to organize the stacking order of content within a given scene. Can be specific to a scene or global to an experience
License: needed by Composer and Player to run. Licenses are device-specific and may be free
Local Network Triggers: triggered when messages are received through the LAN (Local Area Network)

Perpetual License
Philips Hue Lights
Plan & Pricing
Player: software used to run the experiences you create with Composer
Player for Windows: old Player license for Windows-based devices replaced by the single cross-platform Player on 15-May-2019
Player for Tablets: old Player license for Tablets (iPad, off-the-shelf Android tablets) replaced by the single cross-platform Player on 15-May-2019
Player for Kiosks: old Player license for Kiosks (ChromeOS, BrightSign, Samsung SSP, custom Android devices) replaced by the single cross-platform Player on 15-May-2019
Play Mode: a mode of the composer to play the experience currently under edition
Premier: the mid (paid) plan level
Primary Account: i.e. any traditional Intuiface account
Project: a synonym of an Intuiface experience
Properties: can be asset properties or experience properties
Publishing

Samsung SSP: one of the several types of device supported by Intuiface Player
Scene
Scene Structure
Secondary Account
Sequence
Share and Deploy: refers to the Player and experience management page on the My Intuiface website
Share by Account: feature that lets you share an XP with another Intuiface account (Share and Deploy feature)
Share via Email: Interface Asset enabling email sending from an XP
Share with URL: URL-based sharing method (Share and Deploy feature)
Shared licenses
Shared with me
Splashscreen: starting screen of both Composer/Player, can be customized for Player on windows
Startup Scene

Trigger: event that occurs by touching the display, completion of a timer, state change of experience elements, or any alert generated by external services.
Trigger category: bundle of similar triggers
Touch Triggers: events triggered by physically interacting with a touch-enabled screen

Web Triggers: Triggers controlling Experiences remotely through the use of Web-Services

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