TY - GEN
T1 - Patterns of experience in text editing
AU - Rosson, Mary Beth
PY - 1983/12/12
Y1 - 1983/12/12
N2 - What are the effects of experience on text editing behavior? Do users inevitably develop optimal strategies for getting their work done? The answer to such questions are becoming increasingly important, as more and more individuals begin to use word processing equipment routinely. In the best of all possible worlds, experienced users do become experts, able to quickly and accurately choose and execute optimal procedures to accomplish any given goal. Such a state of affairs would make designers of editing systems very happy indeed. But another alternative exists, that at least some proportion of experienced and frequent users stabilize at some nonoptimal level of skill.
AB - What are the effects of experience on text editing behavior? Do users inevitably develop optimal strategies for getting their work done? The answer to such questions are becoming increasingly important, as more and more individuals begin to use word processing equipment routinely. In the best of all possible worlds, experienced users do become experts, able to quickly and accurately choose and execute optimal procedures to accomplish any given goal. Such a state of affairs would make designers of editing systems very happy indeed. But another alternative exists, that at least some proportion of experienced and frequent users stabilize at some nonoptimal level of skill.
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U2 - 10.1145/800045.801604
DO - 10.1145/800045.801604
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85032178612
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 171
EP - 175
BT - Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1983
A2 - Janda, Ann
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 1983 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1983
Y2 - 12 December 1983 through 15 December 1983
ER -