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Volume 1 , Issue 3 (July 1994) table of contents

Pages: 54 - 64

Year of Publication: 1994

ISSN:1072-5520

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Michael Sellers

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Tom Dayton, Skills needed by user-centered design practitioners in real software development environments: report on the CHI'92 workshop, ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, v.25 n.3, p.16-31, July 1993 [doi>10.1145/155786.155790]
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	3	Hix, D. and Hartson, R. Developing User Interfaces. Wil~ New York, 1993
	4	Jakob Nielsen, Usability Engineering, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1993
	5	George G. Robertson , Jock D. Mackinlay , Stuart K. Card, Cone Trees: animated 3D visualizations of hierarchical information, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Reaching through technology, p.189-194, April 27-May 02, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States [doi>10.1145/108844.108883]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

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Sellers discusses the shift from “captive” computer users to “demanding” ones. He shows that many categories of users (such as doctors, lawyers, and children) require software products that can be learned quickly. This more...

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