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Evaluating the “friendliness” of a timesharing system

Published:16 November 1980Publication History

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This paper describes the processes which were developed and used for the evaluation of the user interface, or as it came to be known, the “friendliness” study [1].

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  1. 1.Lorraine Borman and Rosemary Karr, "The Prime and VAX Computer Systems: an Evaluation of the User Interface", Vogelback Computing Center, Northwestern University, March 25, 1980.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. 2.William M.Newman and Robert F.Sproull, Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1979, p.445. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  3. 3.ANSI Subcommittee X3H1, OSCRL User Requirements, Doc.No. X3H105- SD Rev.5, 79.08.08; OSCRL Design Criteria, Doc.No. X3H107SD-Rev.4, 80-05-15; OSCRL Functional Requirements, Doc.No. X3H106-SD Rev. 4, 79-10-19.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  4. 4.The reference to "actual observables" was found in the literature. However, the citation has been lost.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar

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          SIGUCCS '80: Proceedings of the 8th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services
          November 1980
          156 pages
          ISBN:0897910230
          DOI:10.1145/800086

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          • Published: 16 November 1980

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