The phrase "a user action" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an action performed by a user, typically in the context of software, websites, or applications.
Example: "The system will respond to a user action by updating the interface accordingly."
Alternatives: "a user input" or "a user operation".
There's no ambiguity about what could be classified as a metaphor (when referring to TUIs); there's a clear "yes" or "no" response to whether "a system effect of a user action [is] analogous to the real-world effect…"(Fishkin 349).
Full sigTOOL functionality will be provided to support the user-developed code, including the ability to record a user action history for batch processing of files and support for exporting the results of analyses to external graphics editing software and spreadsheet-based data processing packages.
Also, Facebook recently declassified one ad type from being a Sponsored Story to make sure they all require a user action.
That number would put four-year-old Giphy at 2/3 as many users as Snapchat, which disclosed 150 million global daily active users in September, depending on how you count viewing a GIF as a user action.
In the meanwhile a user action (clearing cookies) is not resulting in Google clearing all cookies — which looks like a pretty clear violation of EU privacy rules, albeit temporarily (if it's going to fix it next month).
Events can also represent concerns at various levels, e.g. systems level concerns such as a loss of connectivity, or higher-level concerns, such as a user action (e.g. pressing a panic button, initiating a query, entering a hospital).
The other application we brainstormed about was on an activity log, resident on the phone that tracks a users actions and phone operations.
To see the details of a recovered user action, a click on one of the thumbnails opens a new window.
By maximizing the expected utility function in (10), we focus purely on user consent; we consider a new user action as "just" the generation of a new target value.
"It would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made," she ruled tentatively, "to include various command mechanisms for a single user action in order to execute the user's request".
System process Verification item 13: Was the element required for the interpretation of an applied user action?
