A study of program entry time predictions for application-specific visual and textual languages

Papers Presented at the 7th Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers, ESP 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 209-223

  Williams, Marian G ^a   Buehler, J Nicholas ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

Keystroke level model; Program entry; Textual language; Visual language

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; DISPENSERS; FORECASTING;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GRAPHICAL LANGUAGES; KEY-STROKE LEVEL MODELS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PROGRAM ENTRY; TEXTUAL LANGUAGE;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 38149088526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/266399.266417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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