User engineering principles for interactive systems

  • Authors:
  • Wilfred J. Hansen

  • Affiliations:
  • Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '71 (Fall) Proceedings of the November 16-18, 1971, fall joint computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1972

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Abstract

The 'feel' of an interactive system can be compared to the impressions generated by a piece of music. Both can only be experienced over a period of time. With either, the user must abstract the structure of the system from a sequence of details. Each may have a quality of 'naturalness' because successive actions follow a logically self-consistent pattern. Finally, a good composer can write a new pattern which will seem, after a few listenings, to be so natural the observer wonders why it was never done before.