Transfer between text editors

Authors:
Peter G. Polson;Susan Bovair;David Kieras
Affiliations:
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO;University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI;University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Venue:
CHI '87 Proceedings of the SIGCHI/GI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and Graphics Interface
Year:
1986

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Abstract

This paper describes a successful test of a quantitative model that accounts for large positive transfer effects between similar screen editors, between different line editors and from line editors to a screen editor, and between text and graphic editors. The model is tested in an experiment using two very similar full-screen text-editors differing only in the structure of their editing commands, verb-noun vs noun-verb. Quantitative predictions for training time were derived from a production system model based on the Polson and Kieras (1985) model of text editing.