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- From: pnsf01dw@UMASSD.EDU (Dennis J. Wilkinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Subject: Re: Scientific support for GUIs?
- Message-ID: <Bxv6pv.2o7@umassd.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:25:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: umassd.Bxv6pv.2o7
- References: <1992Nov17.102543.1@cc.helsinki.fi>
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- In article <1992Nov17.102543.1@cc.helsinki.fi>, mlindholm@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
- >Why haven't I ever seen an article, where the graphical (destop
- >metaphor) and command-line user interfaces had been compared?
- >In other words, is there any objective support to Apple's claims,
- >that the Macintosh interface is easier to learn and that people
- >are more productive when using Macintoshes?
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- Whiteside, J., Jones, S., Levy, P.S., and Wixon, D., _User Performance with
- Command, Menu, and Iconic Interfaces_, in the Proceedings of ACM CHI'85
- Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1985, pp. 185-191.
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- If I remember the article, the gist of it is that, although in the end interface
- style is not related to performance level, the learning curve for iconic
- interface systems is much shorter (learning is faster).
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- Dennis J. Wilkinson, II (pnsf01dw@umassd.edu)
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - Design/CS Project
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