DIRECTING THE USER INTERFACE: HOW PEOPLE USE COMMAND-BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
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1988-01-01
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Several striking and surprising characteristics of how people use
interactive systems are abstracted from a large body of recorded
usage data. In particular, we examine frequencies of invocation of
commands and complete command lines (including modifiers and
arguments), as well as vocabulary growth. Individual differences are
of particular interest, and the results are analyzed by user and by
identifying groups of like users. The study underlines the remarkable
diversity that exists even within groups having apparently similar
needs.
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Computer Science