Training Wheels in a User Interface

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 1984, Pages 800-806

  Carroll, John M ^a   Carrithers, Caroline ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

ease of learning; education; human learning; human computer interaction; training; usability; user interface architecture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTERFACES;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 0021477815     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/358198.358218     Document Type: Article

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