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Software Engineering Journal
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CHI '87 Proceedings of the SIGCHI/GI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and Graphics Interface
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ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
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CHI '83 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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CSCL '99 Proceedings of the 1999 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning
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Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Collaborative use of individual search histories
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Understanding the Utility of Rationale in a Mixed-Initiative System for GUI Customization
UM '07 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on User Modeling
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Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
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IJCAI'97 Proceedings of the Fifteenth international joint conference on Artifical intelligence - Volume 2
History-based device graphical user-interfaces
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems
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Several striking characteristics of how often people repeat their actions on interactive systems are abstracted from usage data gleaned from many users of different classes over a period of months. Reformulated as empirically-based general principles, these provide design guidelines for history mechanisms specifically and modern user interfaces generally. Particular attention is paid to the repetition of command lines, and to the probability distribution of the next line given a sequential “history list” of previous ones. Several ways are examined of conditioning this distribution to enhance predictive power. A brief case study of actual use of a widely-used history system is also included.