An evaluation of using programming by demonstration and guided walkthrough techniques for authoring and utilizing documentation

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 241-250

  Prabaker, Madhu ^a   Bergman, Lawrence ^b   Castelli, Vittorio ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Documentation authoring; Guided walkthrough; Programming by demonstration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EFFICIENCY; ERROR CORRECTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

DOCUMENTATION AUTHORING; ERROR RATE; GUIDED-WALKTHROUGH; PROGRAMMING BY DEMONSTRATION;

PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

EID: 33745929364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1124772.1124809     Document Type: Conference Paper

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