A survey of software learnability

Grossman, Tovi; Fitzmaurice, George; Attar, Ramtin

doi:10.1145/1518701.1518803

Cited by 200 publications

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“…The purpose of our experiments was to evaluate the initial learnability [21] of VMTL, i.e. user's initial performance when first faced with the language.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

VMTL: a language for end-user model transformation

2016

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“…The purpose of our experiments was to evaluate the initial learnability [21] of VMTL, i.e. user's initial performance when first faced with the language.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

VMTL: a language for end-user model transformation

2016

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“…Given that the concept of learnability has several acceptations, we have used some ideas from the framework presented in [18]. The first main idea is that learnability depends on users' experience.…”

Section: Applying Hci Principlesmentioning

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Computer Aided Call for Tenders: A Tool for Software Bidding

Hochstetter¹,

Cares²

2014

JSEA

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Under a broad comprehension of Software Engineering, it is preferred the term software life cycle instead of just software production. The reason is that cycle starts at software conception and stops when the software is relegated. Given contemporary companies' market strategies of focusing on their competitive advantages, most of them have externalized their software production to outsourced services. Therefore, the call for software tenders has become a common step in the software life cycle. In this paper, we present a tool which aids non-experts to specify call for software tenders. The motivation was Chile situation of most of rural and semi-urban city halls which do not have engineering teams to build call for software tenders. We describe the problem in terms of lack of competitiveness and empty biddings generated by low quality calls for tenders. As a second step, we show the technical considerations to develop the proposed tool and its features. We include an initial tool perception from a first group of users.

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“…Learnability is consistently identified as a critical component of usability [13,31,37], but as Grossman et al [18] observe, there is little agreement over how it can be defined or measured. Grossman et al [18] provide a comprehensive review of definitions, metrics, and methodologies for assessing learnability, and they suggest a new protocol for measuring it.…”

Section: Framework and Review Of Interface Expertisementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Grossman et al [18] provide a comprehensive review of definitions, metrics, and methodologies for assessing learnability, and they suggest a new protocol for measuring it. However, evaluation methodologies are applied after an interface has been designed, and current best-practice guidelines for supporting expertise are often high level generalisations, such as "provide shortcuts" [31] that provide little direct guidance or insight into underlying design issues.…”

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Dips and ceilings

Scarr

Cockburn

Gutwin

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Interface guidelines encourage designers to include shortcut mechanisms that enable high levels of expert performance, but prior research has demonstrated that few users switch to using them. To help understand how interfaces can better support a transition to expert performance we develop a framework of the interface and human factors influencing expertise development. We then present a system called Blur that addresses three main problems in promoting the transition: prompting an initial switch to expert techniques, minimising the performance dip arising from the switch, and enabling a high performance ceiling. Blur observes the user"s interaction with unaltered desktop applications and uses calm notification to support learning and promote awareness of an alternative hot command interface. An empirical study validates Blur"s design, showing that users make an early and sustained switch to hot commands, and that doing so improves their performance and satisfaction.

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A survey of software learnability

Cited by 200 publications

References 42 publications

VMTL: a language for end-user model transformation

VMTL: a language for end-user model transformation

Computer Aided Call for Tenders: A Tool for Software Bidding

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