How users repeat their actions on computers: Principles for design of history mechanisms

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn Part F130202, Issue , 1988, Pages 171-178

  Greenberg, Saul ^a   Witten, Ian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Command reuse; Command based systems; Design principles; History mechanisms; Human computer interaction

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; USER INTERFACES;

ACTUAL USE; COMMAND LINE; COMMAND REUSE; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DIFFERENT CLASS; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; PREDICTIVE POWER; USAGE DATA;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84987246692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/57167.57196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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