Eclipse help system: An open source user assistance offering

ACM SIGDOC Annual International Conference on Computer Documentation, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 49-59

  Halsted, Kari L ^a   Roberts, James H ^a  

^a IBM TORONTO LAB   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eclipse User Assistance; User Assistance; User Centered Design

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SERVERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

USER-CENTERED DESIGN;

USER INTERFACES;

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References (5)

1. The Simpsons, episode 7f16, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" First aired February 21, 1991.
2. Redish, Janice. "Understanding Readers" in C. M. Barnum and S. Carliner, Techniques for Technical Communicators. New York, Macmillan Publishing Company: 1993, 13-41.
3. A good deal of the research background for some of the Eclipse UA affordances can be found in B. Fraser, J. Roberts, G. Pianosi, P. Alencar, D. Cowan, D. Germán and L. Nova, "Dynamic Views of SGML Tagged Documents", in Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference of Computer Documentation (SIGDOC-99), 93-98, (New Orleans, U.S.A.), Sept. 1999.
4. For details about the Eclipse Platform, see "Eclipse Platform Technology Overview", at www.eclipse.org. Object Technology International, Inc. July 2001.
5. Much of the discussion in Sections 4.2 and 4.5 is based on "Eclipse V2 Help System - Support and Functionality Overview", at www.eclipse.org. July 2002.