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Article #1006Re: Tools for user interface RESEARCH
From: Andre Guirard
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 19:48
Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 19:48
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In article <1085@dgbt.uucp> andrew@dgbt.crc.dnd.ca (Andrew Patrick) writes:
>>Has anyone made a generic tool for user interface research?
>... our generic "tool" is to sit people down and ask them what they
>think, and measure what they do.
Perhaps what the original poster intended, was a tool to automate the
measurement process. Thus if you're measuring the time it takes
the user to perform some operation, and the rate of error in doing so,
the "tool" would hover over your application and note when keys are pressed
and whether they're the right keys. It might be difficult to make this
general-purpose enough and portable enough.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!nic.MR.NET!umn-cs!mmm!cipher From: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: Tools for user interface RESEARCH Keywords: user interfaces, research, tools Message-ID: <1268@mmm.UUCP> Date: 23 May 89 19:48:55 GMT References: <4128@bgsuvax.UUCP> <1085@dgbt.uucp> Reply-To: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) Distribution: na Organization: 3M Company - Software and Electronics Resource Center (SERC); St. Paul, MN Lines: 17