AN EASE OF USE EVALUATION OF AN INTEGRATED EDITOR AND

  • Authors:
  • M. Good

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • AN EASE OF USE EVALUATION OF AN INTEGRATED EDITOR AND
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

Etude is an integrated text editor and formatter that was designed to be easy to learn and easy to use. To measure Etude''s success in meeting these goals, twenty-one computer-naive temporary office workers were taught to use Etude in a controlled experiment. Ninety percent of the subjects were able to create and edit letters after a training period of less than two hours and twenty minutes, though they were not about to perform these tasks as quickly as they could when using a typewriter. Etude did not appear to have any systematic effect on subject anxiety. The subjects had favorable attitudes towards using Etude. These attitudes were at least as favorable as their attitudes towards using a typewriter.