User

A broad term for the person who interacts with a computer program. (See interactor; player.)

Discussion

Colorless, derogatory term for the interactor or player.

-- nm - 30 Jul 2002

Um, really? It's perhaps a bit dry, but certainly no more so than interactor, and I certainly don't consider it derogatory.

-- OKB (2002/08/07)

I wouldn't say that it's derogatory, but it is kind of depersonalized.

-- DGJ - 07 Aug 2002

Actually I was just making a funny, which should probably be excised. "User" would be a term generic to computing and both "player" and "interactor" would be more specific, but of course it's not really derogatory.

-- nm - 10 Aug 2002