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Quote: measure user interface, layout appropriateness by weighted costs of performing common tasks; yields faster performance and preferred layouts

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Topic:
keystroke-level model for user interface evaluation
Topic:
ease of use
Group:
testing and evaluating user interfaces

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The metric, Layout Appropriateness (LA), requires a description … task description can either be from observations of … computed by weighting the cost of each sequence … [p.716] The second interface to be evaluated was … The proposed MacDraw dialog box layout resulted in … … The LA-optimal layout [without additional design considerations] was faster (p < … This indicates that larger differences in LA may … layout.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: small differences in layout appropriateness do not affect performance

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