Topic:
comparing paper to electronic access to information
Topic:
experimental results on programming
Topic:
problems with using icons
Topic:
selecting with a mouse
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Subtopic: audience reaction 
| Quote: when Disney finished a cartoon, the whole staff went to the movie theater to see how audiences liked it [»heckP_1984]
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Subtopic: manual simulation
| Quote: SmartHelp simulated intelligent help with a person, but none of the participants voiced suspicions [»carrJM9_1988]
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Subtopic: study of SuperBook
| Quote: essays written with SuperBook significantly better than those with conventional documentation [»eganDE5_1989]
| | Quote: SuperBook users rated the documentation significantly easier to use [»eganDE5_1989]
| | Quote: tested a SuperBook with a large statistics text [»eganDE5_1989]
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Subtopic: contextual design
| Quote: Programmer's Workbench Memorandum Macros resulted from examining how people manipulate and stylize their documentation; easy to learn [»mashJR_1976a]
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Subtopic: use of examples
| Quote: research supports the use of examples for program comprehension and production; faster, fewer attempts, more accurate, used as template [»mcleSG5_1998]
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Subtopic: personalization
| Quote: subjects who specified how they would receive messages took fewer notes and exhibited greater comprehension [»ramsHR5_1983]
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Subtopic: eliding material
| Quote: significantly more time was spent searching the display when all alternatives were presented vs. permissible alternatives [»bakeJD6_1966]
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Subtopic: avoiding reading
| Quote: users often fail to read information even though modest amount of text in the expected form [»robeG5_1981]
| | Quote: forced learners to read the introduction by placing it across the envelope's seal [»carrJM_1990]
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Subtopic: speech recognition
| Quote: creating text by keyboard-mouse faster than continuous speech recognition; more natural [»karaCM5_1999]
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Subtopic: note taking
| Quote: tested StickeNote system in a 2-month study of giraffe behavior; recorded every nibble [»pascJ9_2000]
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Subtopic: selection
| Quote: excentric labels about 60% faster than virtual instantaneous zoom for successful searches [»fekeJD5_1999]
| | Quote: search for upper-left targets faster than lower-right targets; 2x to 4x; roughly linear for three column layout; lower middle targets slower [»hornAJ9_2001]
| | Quote: 1/5 second search time for target-only layouts; independent of position
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Subtopic: icon
| Quote: studied representational and graphically concrete icons as compared to arbitrary and abstract icons [»stotDB10_1998]
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Subtopic: menus
| Quote: even on large monitors, bar menus are faster than the best walking menu [»walkN4_1990]
| | Quote: dynamic menus move most frequent item to top; slowed down novices, no improvement after experience, strongly disliked [»mitcJ4_1989]
| | Quote: best to minimize depth of menu trees by using 8-9 selections at each level [»kigeJI2_1984]
| | Quote: using pop-up menus instead of dialogue-boxes saved 11 seconds for certain telephone queries; estimated savings of $1.6 million in two years [»nielJ11_1993]
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Subtopic: control system
| Quote: novices users on OZ maintained altitude and heading clearly better than a conventional display [»stilDL12_2002]
| | Quote: neither experience nor turbulence effected the RMS error for altitude or heading
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Subtopic: windows
| Quote: Elastic Windows ten-fold faster than overlapping windows for a complex, comparison task [»kandE3_1998]
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Subtopic: web browser
| Quote: web browser tasks in order: Use Information, Locate, Goto (and wait) [»byrnMD5_1999]
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Subtopic: web search
| Quote: study of user searches at www.excite.com [»jansBJ1_1998]
| | Quote: analysis of AltaVista search query log; 25 most common queries covered 1.5% of total; most sessions consisted of one query, viewed one screen of results [»silvC9_1999]
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Subtopic: newsgroup
| Quote: analysis of 2 million messages on 500 Usenet newsgroups over 6 months [»whitS11_1998]
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Subtopic: phrase editor
| Quote: English phrase editor better than notational editor at 0.001 confidence level with 24 subjects [»ledgH_1981]
| | Quote: English phrases better than notations for controlling an editor; on all measures, e.g., nearly half the mistakes [»ledgH10_1980]
| Quote: better performance when editing commands were English phrases instead of notations; novice and expert
[»ledgH_1981]
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