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» 1993 «

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Szczur, Martha R. and Sheppard, Sylvia B. (1993): TAE Plus: Transportable Applications Environment Plus: A User Interface Development Environment. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 11 (1) pp. 76-101

“The Transportable Applications Environment Plus (TAE Plus) is a NASA-developed user interface development environment (UIDE) for the rapid prototyping, evaluation, implementation, and management of user interfaces. TAE Plus provides an intuitive What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) WorkBench for designing an application's user interface. The WorkBench supports the creation and sequencing of displays, including real-time, data-driven display objects. Users can define context-sensitive help for a target application. They can rehearse the user interface and also generate code automatically. In addition, TAE Plus contains application services for the runtime manipulation and management of the user interface. Based on Motif and the MIT X Window System, TAE Plus runs on a variety of Unix- or VMS-based workstations. TAE Plus is an evolving system. User-defined requirements and new technology guide the development of each new version. Advances in virtual operating systems, human factors, computer graphics, command language design, standardization, and software portability are monitored and incorporated as they become available.”

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Sheppard, Sylvia B. and Murphy, Elizabeth D. (1993): Celebrating a Decade of Joyful Innovation: HCIL's 10th Annual Symposium and Open House. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 25 (4) pp. 29-31

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Sheppard, Sylvia B. (1993): TAE Plus: A Tool for Building and Managing Graphical User Interfaces. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Poster Sessions: Abridged Proceedings 1993. p. 273.

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Sheppard, Sylvia B. (1992): Report on the CHI '91 UIMS Tool Developers' Workshop. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 24 (1) pp. 28-31

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Sheppard, Sylvia B. (1991): User Interface Developers' Workshop Report: Seeheim Revisited. In: Robertson, Scott P., Olson, Gary M. and Olson, Judith S. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 91 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 28 - June 5, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana. p. 487. Available online

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Soloway, Elliot, Frye, Douglas and Sheppard, Sylvia B. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 88 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 15-19, 1988, Washington, DC, USA.

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Olson, Gary M., Sheppard, Sylvia B. and Soloway, Elliot (eds.) (1987): Empirical Studies of Programmers: Second Workshop. Norwood, NJ, Ablex Publishing

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Olson, Gary M., Sheppard, Sylvia B. and Soloway, Elliot (eds.) Empirical Studies of Programmers - Second Workshop December 7-8 1987, 1987, Washington, DC.

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Boehm-Davis, Deborah A., Sheppard, Sylvia B. and Bailey, John W. (1987): Program Design Languages: How Much Detail Should They Include?. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 27 (4) pp. 337-347

“This experiment evaluated the effectiveness of using a program design language (PDL) specifically designed to aid in coding a corresponding programming language. PDLs were designed to reflect the constructs and level of detail of three particular programming languages (i.e. MACRO-11, FORTRAN and APL). We measured the performance of programmers coding from these various PDLs in MACRO-11 and FORTRAN. Each participant was presented with three programs in one of the two programming languages. Several lines had been deleted from each program. A participant's task, performed online, was to complete the code using the PDLs. For programmers coding in MACRO-11, the MACRO-like PDL was associated with the shortest coding times. Further, the participants said they found the MACRO-like PDL easiest to use, and they relied on it most heavily. For programmers coding in FORTRAN, the FORTRAN-like PDL was associated with the shortest coding times; the participants said they found the FORTRAN-like PDL easiest to use, and they relied on it most heavily. From these data we conclude that optimal use of a PDL requires that it be tailored to the target programming language in terms of type of construct and level of detail.”

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Sheppard, Sylvia B., Kruesi, Elizabeth and Bailey, John W. (1982): An Empirical Evaluation of Software Documentation Formats. In: Nichols, Jean A. and Schneider, Michael L. (eds.) Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems March 15-17, 1982, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States. pp. 121-124.

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