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Instructive Interaction: Making Innovative
Interfaces Self-Teaching |
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Larry L. Constantine, Lucy A. D. Lockwood |
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[#116]: 2002 | Adobe .PDF File: about 431K. |
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Abstract: An innovative approach to
enhancing ease of use and learning for novel user interfaces is described.
Instructive interaction comprises a body of techniques based on a
learning-by-doing model that is supported by three design principles:
explorability, predictability, and guidance. Taken together, these
principles form the basis for creative designs that can support highly
efficient production use by experienced users while also enabling new users
to understand and make effective use of an unfamiliar system almost
immediately. The underlying principles of instructive interaction are
presented here and an assortment of specific techniques based on these
principles is described. |
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Keywords: usage-centered design,
user interface design, innovation, standards, learning, intrinsic help,
novice users, single-trial learning, anticipatory learning |
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Preprint of original paper (January
2002). |
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Preprint
[#116]: 2002 | Adobe .PDF File: about 431K. |
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Related Documents:
Design Study 1 [#111],
Design Study 2 [#112],
Design Study 3 [#116],
Component Selection [#121]; Newsletter:
Inventing by Increments,
Intrinsic Help |
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