Visualizing efficiency: A technique to help designers judge interface efficiency

Andrew Sears

doi:10.1145/257089.257337

Visualizing efficiency: A technique to help designers judge interface efficiency

Andrew Sears

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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Abstract

Efficiency is an important issue to consider when designing user interfaces. However, several small studies indicate that interface designers and evaluators are not particularly good at judging the efficiency of simple single screen interfaces. This paper introduces a visualization technique that allows designers to judge efficiency of an interface layout and reports on a pilot study that demonstrates the potential of this technique.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI 1996 - Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Michael J. Tauber
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	311-312
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9780897918329
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/257089.257337
State	Published - Apr 18 1996
Event	1996 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1996 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: Apr 13 1996 → Apr 18 1996

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	1996 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1996
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	4/13/96 → 4/18/96

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Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software
General Computer Science
General Social Sciences

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Visualizing efficiency: A technique to help designers judge interface efficiency. / Sears, Andrew.
CHI 1996 - Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Michael J. Tauber. Association for Computing Machinery, 1996. p. 311-312 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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