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- From: fj_maddi@csd.uwe.ac.uk (FJ Maddix)
- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Subject: Re: Click to Raise Windows vs. Point to Raise
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.101129.558@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 10:11:29 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.222850.2695@u.washington.edu>
- Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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- This is personal opinion, but:
- Click-to-raise involves a voluntary attention switch (ie to the input focus)
- whereas point-to-raise could just result in confusion as unrelated windows
- (all but one of which you do not need) pop up and down.
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- Also, if Craik & Lockhart's 'levels of processing' theory is right, things
- that have had more processing are better learned.
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- Next question: does 'point-and-click' mean twice as much cognitive processing
- as 'point'?
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- Ask a psychologist.
-
- Frank.
-