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Outlier finding: focusing user attention on possible errors

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Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology archive
Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology table of contents

Orlando, Florida

SESSION: Papers: Managing user interaction table of contents

Pages: 81 - 90

Year of Publication: 2001

ISBN:1-58113-438-X

Authors

Robert C. Miller	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Brad A. Myers	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

When users handle large amounts of data, errors are hard to notice. Outlier finding is a new way to reduce errors by directing the user's attention to inconsistent data which may indicate errors. We have implemented an outlier finder for text, which can detect both unusual matches and unusual mismatches to a text pattern. When integrated into the user interface of a PBD text editor and tested in a user study, outlier finding substantially reduced errors.

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