An iterative design methodology for user-friendly natural language office information applications

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1984, Pages 26-41

  Kelley, J F ^a  

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

Author keywords

discretionary user; ease of use; empirical grammar; engineering psychology; iterative design; limited context; naive user; Natural language; simulation; task analysis; user friendly

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976689900     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/357417.357420     Document Type: Article

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