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1988

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Brooks, Andrew and Thorburn, C. (1988): User-Driven Adaptive Behaviour, A Comparative Evaluation and an Inductive Analysis. In: Jones, Dylan M. and Winder, R. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Specialist Group - People and Computers IV August 5-9, 1988, University of Manchester, UK. pp. 237-255.

“The comparative effectiveness of user-driven adaption has remained unevaluated until now. An experiment is reported in which two groups of subjects made use of separate text-based interfaces to an operating system environment. One group made use of a traditional interface with a help system, the other made use of a user-driven adaptive interface. The latter group of subjects could move between three different interface styles by a single function key-stroke at any request for input. Both interfaces were built using CONNECT and the experiment was carried out within a research paradigm promoted by Brooks. The group using the traditional interface was found to have requested help significantly more often than the number of times the other group pressed the function keys and four of the subjects commented negatively on the entry/exit nature of the help system. User-driven adaption was otherwise found not to enhance interaction. Interpretations are placed upon subjects' behaviour at the user-driven adaptive interface and compared with those made of the results of an earlier experiment.”

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