User Centered System Design: Papers for the CHI '1983 Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems.

Abstract

This report includes four papers by the UCSD Project on Human-Computer Interfaces presented at the 1983 Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems (Boston, December 1983). The first paper, Evaluation and Analyses of User's Activity Organization (Bannon, Cypher, Greenspan, and Monty), analyzes the activities performed by users of computer systems. The second paper, A Proposal for User Censered System Documentation (O'Malley, Smolensky, Bannon, Conway, Graham, Sokolov, and Monty), outlines a set of proposals for the development of system documentation based on an analysis of user needs. The third paper, Questionnaires as a Software Evaluation Tool (Root and Draper), reports on a study investigating the strengths and weaknesses of questionnaires as software evaluation tools. The fourth paper, Design Principles for Human-Computer Interfaces (Norman), discusses some of the properties that useful principles should ahve and presents examples of a tradeoff analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA136131

Entities

People

  • A. Cypher
  • E. Conway
  • Jonathon J. Graham
  • L. Bannon
  • S. Draper

Organizations

  • University of California, San Diego

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human-Computer Interfaces
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Operating Systems
  • Psychology
  • Students

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Software Engineering.