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1989
 
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Williams, Evelyn, Tarlin, Eliot, Mathis, Barry, Dawson, David, Wagner, Annette and Chamberlain, Marsh (1989): Visual Interface Design. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 33rd Annual Meeting 1989. pp. 323-324.

User interface design has many components. Usable computer interfaces should be easy to learn, result in high user productivity and high user satisfaction. There are a number of components in user interface design that affect the usability of the interface. Within the human factors community we tend to emphasize the ergonomic and cognitive components of the computer interface. There is another component that is frequently ignored, the visual interface design. This panel will present information on the visual component in various user-computer interfaces and will discuss the contributions of the visual designer to the interfaces and usability.

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Rowland, Lawrence and Williams, Evelyn (1989): A Computer Aided Method for Assessing Accessibility of Information in Technical Documentation. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 33rd Annual Meeting 1989. pp. 394-398.

A methodology and a computer based program for testing documentation organization and location aids (tab-dividers, indices, tables of content and headings) was developed and used to aid the design and evaluation of documentation. The methodology and program allow computer analogs of documents to be tested before they were actually produced (based on detailed outlines). The documentation testing program presents the test subject a series of goal oriented user tasks. The subject then selects from a set of books and uses the existing location aids or paging to locate the heading that contains the information required to accomplish the task. The program automatically records use of the table of contents, tab-dividers, and index as well as the heading under which the subject believes the information will be found. The subject is allowed to make changes and additions to the tables of content, the index, and main body headings as the test progresses. The program runs in two modes. One mode provides feedback to the test subject on whether the final location is correct and tests how rapidly information can be found. Another model provides no feedback on the correctness of the locations and is used for developing models for the documentation based on user search paths and information content assumed to be under headings. The program has been used to evaluate documentation for a large computer operating system (HP-UX, a variant of UNIX) and the results show promise.

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Cohill, Andrew M., Billingsley, Patricia, Williams, Evelyn, Gilmore, Walter and Williams, James (1987): Human Factors Society Human-Computer Interaction Standards Committee Draft Proposal Version 1.2. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 31st Annual Meeting 1987. pp. 871-873.

The purpose of this reference model is to identify all topic areas that might be covered by guidelines or standards relating to the human-computer interface and to provide an organizational structure for those topics that will allow guidelines or standards to be developed in an incremental yet systematic fashion. By "human-computer interface" we mean those aspects of a computer system that both affect the user and have implications for software design. Our approach to the development of guidelines will be based on an attempt to determine those areas of the human interface which have sufficient importance and data available to merit an attempt to standardize.

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