The Paradox of the Assisted User: Guidance can be Counterproductive

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 917-926

  Van Nimwegen, Cliristof ^a   Burgos, Daniel ^b   Van Oostendorp, Herre ^a   Schijf, Hermina ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Display based; Externalization; Interface design; Need For Cognition; Plan based; Planning; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LOGIC DESIGN; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DISPLAY-BASED; EXTERNALIZATION; INTERFACE DESIGN; NEED FOR COGNITION; PLAN-BASED;

USER INTERFACES;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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