PRINCIPLES FOR THE DESIGN OF MANUALS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY AND PRODUCTION RULE ANALYSIS

  • Authors:
  • Richard Catrambone

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

PAC is an implementation model that attempts to bridge the gap between the abstract sphere of theoretical models such as GOMS [Card 83], and the practical affairs of building user interfaces. The foundation for PAC is the distinction promoted by some theoretical models between the semantic and the lexical aspects of the human-computer interaction [Foley 82, Norman 84, Shneiderman 87]. However, PAC stresses the fact that these notions do not form strict monolithic layers but instead, are distributed across various levels of abstraction.