Dips and ceilings: Understanding and supporting transitions to expertise in user interfaces

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2741-2750

  Scarr, Joey ^a   Cockburn, Andy ^a   Gutwin, Carl ^b   Quinn, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Command interfaces; Expertise; Novice to expert transition

Indexed keywords

COMMAND INTERFACES; DESKTOP APPLICATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPERT PERFORMANCE; EXPERTISE; EXPERTISE DEVELOPMENT; NOVICE-TO-EXPERT TRANSITION; SUPPORT LEARNING; USER INTERACTION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 79958162703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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