Patterns of experience in text editing

Mary Beth Rosson

doi:10.1145/800045.801604

Patterns of experience in text editing

Mary Beth Rosson

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1983
Editors	Ann Janda
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	171-175
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	0897911210
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/800045.801604
State	Published - Dec 12 1983
Event	1983 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1983 - Boston, United States Duration: Dec 12 1983 → Dec 15 1983

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Other	1983 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1983
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	12/12/83 → 12/15/83

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Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Rosson, MB 1983, Patterns of experience in text editing. in A Janda (ed.), Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1983. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 171-175, 1983 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1983, Boston, United States, 12/12/83. https://doi.org/10.1145/800045.801604

Patterns of experience in text editing. / Rosson, Mary Beth.
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1983. ed. / Ann Janda. Association for Computing Machinery, 1983. p. 171-175 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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