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1988
 
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Wichansky, Anna, Abernethy, Charles N., Kotsonis, Miriam E., Antonelli, D. C. and Mitchell, Peter P. (1988): Selling Ease of Use: Human Factors Partnerships with Marketing. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 32nd Annual Meeting 1988. pp. 598-602.

As customer demand surges for products which are easy to use, human factors and marketing professionals are working together more frequently. The purpose of this panel is to discuss ways in which human factors and marketing can interact to provide and promote usability. Panelists will share their successes and failures in working with marketing by describing case studies of collaborative work. The pros and cons of joint efforts will be discussed in a moderated question and answer format with audience participation. Brad Woolsey of Parallax Marketing Research will be a discussant.

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Antonelli, D. C. (1987): A Comparison of Hardcopy and Expert System Presentation of Network Operator Assistance Guides. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 31st Annual Meeting 1987. pp. 706-709.

Operator's Guides have traditionally been used for the communication of information. Some recent work by de Bachtin (1985) has shown that in certain programming applications, expert systems can be used to perform the same function with increased user satisfaction. The current study addresses an SNA network assistance application and compares a conventional hard copy user's manual to an expert system design to convey similar information. The performance of eight naive assistance operators attempting to solve eight typical problem scenarios was evaluated. Each operator performed all tasks. Presentation order was counterbalanced. Measures included probability of successful solution and time of solution. Performance was superior using the expert systems approach for all measures.

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Computer programs emerge as the outcome of complex human processes of cognition, communication and negotiation, which serve to establish the meaningful embedding of the computer system in its intended use context.

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