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Young, Richard M. and Harris, John E. (1986): A Viewdata-Structure Editor Designed Around a Task/Action Mapping. In: Harrison, Michael D. and Monk, Andrew (eds.) Proceedings of the Second Conference of the British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Specialist Group - People and Computers II August 23-26, 1986, University of York, UK. pp. 435-446.

This paper reports an exploratory attempt to design an editor for viewdata networks based explicitly around a task/action mapping. Task analysis reveals that one editing task can imply the need for another, leading to a view of the overall task as a set of frame-edits joined by a web of implications. A viewdata editor to capitalise on this task structure supplements the frame editor itself with a helpful "assistant" which keeps track of the implications, and at appropriate times reminds the user of the tasks remaining to be done and suggests one to work on next. The order in which tasks are offered to the user is crucial to the success of the system, and is determined by the interaction between four heuristic ordering principles.

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