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SIGDOC
2006
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Why don't people read the manual?
Few users of computer applications seek help from the documentation. This paper reports the results of an empirical study of why this is so and examines how, in real work, users s...
David G. Novick, Karen Ward
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GW
1999
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
The Expressive Power of Gestures: Capturing Scent in a Spatial Shape
Our engagement with consumer products diminishes gradually over the last decades, which causes considerable usability problems. To dissolve these problems, the designer's emph...
Caroline Hummels, Kees Overbeeke
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GD
2000
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
User Preference of Graph Layout Aesthetics: A UML Study
The merit of automatic graph layout algorithms is typically judged on their computational efficiency and the extent to which they conform to aesthetic criteria (for example, minimi...
Helen C. Purchase, Jo-Anne Allder, David A. Carrin...
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BCSHCI
2008
15 years 5 months ago
Low cost prototyping: part 1, or how to produce better ideas faster by getting user reactions early and often
Although approaches to User Centered Software Development have existed for almost 20 years a rift still exists between theory and practice. In practice, many software projects are...
Stephen Brown, Andreas Holzinger
BCSHCI
2008
15 years 5 months ago
Efficiency of multimodal metaphors in the presentation of learning information
The comparative study described in this paper has been conducted to investigate the effect of including multimodal metaphors on the usability of e-learning interfaces. Two indepen...
Marwan Alseid, Dimitrios Rigas