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Publikováno v:
Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting. 27:663-667
Two studies were performed to evaluate learning and use of Query by Example (QBE) and Structured Query Language (SQL) for two user groups - college Business Administration students and secretaries. Test participants were taught each query language us
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Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting. 26:994-998
Metalanguages are often used in programming reference manuals to describe the syntactic features of programming languages. This experiment tested two metalanguages, the IBM conventional syntax notation which uses brackets and braces, and syntax diagr
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 23:215-229
An important issue in the usability of software is the quality of the manuals that are provided with the product. Some manuals describe the rules of a programming language to the user, and the syntax notation or metalanguage used to describe these ru
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Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 24:385-394
Two experiments were conducted to determine the optimum mode of operation of the "scroll" keys on a visual display terminal. One mode involved "moving the data"; that is, pressing the "scroll up" key moved the data up, thus displaying data toward the
Publikováno v:
CHI
To study a different star the astronomer moves his telescope. To study a different bacterium the biologist moves his microscope slide. In the case of the astronomer, it is the viewing instrument that is being moved, while in the case of the biologist
Autor:
R. James Evey
Publikováno v:
AFIPS Fall Joint Computing Conference
Scientific knowledge has always been advanced through the combined efforts of those who experiment and those who theorize. This is as true of the field in which the effective processing of languages by computers is considered as any other.