Learning and remembering command names
CHI '82 Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Psychological issues in the use of icons in command menus
CHI '82 Proceedings of the 1982 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
XS-1: An integrated interactive system and its kernel
ICSE '82 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Software engineering
Lexical semantics in human-computer communication
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
The evolution of user-centered focus in the human-computer interaction field
IBM Systems Journal
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A variety of aspects of command names have been studied, such as suggestiveness, memorability, and the use of icons. A single framework for these disparate studies is desirable, and it is proposed that the concept of featural analysis prevalent in linguistics and psycholinguistics be adopted as an approach to command name design. Examples of the breadth of application of this approach are given for the naming issues of suggestiveness, learning and memory, congruence and hierarchicalness, universal commands, the relationships of names to the command language syntax, and the use of non-words as names.