A SURVEY OF REUSE FACILITIES
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1989-12-01
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Reuse facilities help people to recall and modify their earlier
activities and re-submit them to the computer. This paper surveys
existing reuse facilities under three main headings: history
mechanisms, adaptive systems, and programming by example. The first
kind relies on temporally ordered lists of interactions, the second
builds abstract models of past activities and uses them to expedite
future interaction, while the third collects and generalizes more
extensive sequences of activities for future reuse. A companion
paper (Greenberg & Witten, 1989) presents the results of a large-scale
study of how users actually repeat their activities on computers and
contrasts the multitude of opportunities for reuse with the relatively
infrequent use of an actual history mechanism.
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Computer Science