Misconceived misconceptions?

Authors:
M. E. J. Masson;W. C. Hill;J. Conner;R. Guidon
Affiliations:
Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada;MCC, Austin, TX;MCC, Austin, TX;MCC, Austin, TX
Venue:
CHI '88 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
1988

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Abstract

Detailed user activity scripts from two previous studies of novice users working at a command language or a direct representation interface were submitted to independent expert judges for the justified ascription of misconceptions. Our initial hypothesis was that behavioral evidence for such misconceptions comes about as a result of well-articulated hypothetical reasoning. Although the evidence we obtained supports this view, it also suggests that for the direct representation case some activity normally attributed to misconceptions is non-reasoned in nature and governed by inherent powers of the representation.