Forcing function can mean:
- In differential calculus, a Forcing function (differential equations)
- In interaction design, a behavior-shaping constraint, a means of preventing undesirable user input usually made by mistake.
Famous quotes containing the words forcing and/or function:
“no arranged terror: no forcing of image, plan,
or thought:
no propaganda, no humbling of reality to precept:
terror pervades but is not arranged, all possibilities
of escape open: no route shut,”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)
“Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information—hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)