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mental models, consistency, and interface metaphors
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Slator, B.M., Anderson, M.P., Conley, W., "Pygmalion at the interface", Communications of the ACM, 29, 7, pp. 599-604, July 1986. Google
602 ;;Quote: systems that understand English promise too much and deliver too little; people mistakenly expect valid inferences
602 ;;Quote: when two cultures speaking different languages must communicate, a pidgin language arises; may apply to human-computer interface
603 ;;Quote: return actual command issued by a natural language front-end; users learned the command syntax
603 ;;Quote: users will pick up mnemonic commands (pidgin-computer) if a natural-language front-end provides them; gives a short cut, easy to learn
603 ;;Quote: expertise develops as the user's mental model matches the abstract system model; an interface should reveal the system model
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