Paul Abrahams
Pages 241-242
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 243-244
The quality of error messages produced by software used in the field was tested by a simple experiment; it was found to be far from adequate. The results of the experiment are analyzed, and some responses which tend to collaborate …
P. J. Brown
Pages 246-249
This paper presents an efficient algorithm based on Quicksort. The Quicksort algorithm is known to be one of the most efficient sorting techniques; however, one of the drawbacks of this method is its worst case situation of 0 …
Dalia Motzkin
Pages 250-251
Michael L. Schneider, John C. Thomas
Pages 252-253
By analyzing the classes of errors that people make with systems, it is possible to develop principles of system design that minimize both the occurrence of error and the effects. This paper demonstrates some of these principles …
Donald A. Norman
Pages 254-258
Formal specification techniques are valuable in software development because they permit a designer to describe the external behavior of a system precisely without specifying its internal implementation. Although formal specifications …
Robert J. K. Jacob
Pages 259-264
This paper presents a methodology for evaluating text editors on several dimensions: the time it takes experts to perform basic editing tasks, the time experts spend making and correcting errors, the rate at which novices learn …
Teresa L. Roberts, Thomas P. Moran
Pages 265-283
Magnitudes and correlates of stress were investigated among 248 office workplace VDT users and 85 nonuser counterparts using field survey and objective physical measurement techniques. Other than a tenuous indication of increased …
Steven L. Sauter, Mark S. Gottlieb, Karen C. Jones, Vernon N. Dodson, Kathryn M. Rohrer
Pages 284-294
With a listening typewriter, what an author says would be automatically recognized and displayed in front of him or her. However, speech recognition is not yet advanced enough to provide people with a reliable listening typewriter …
John D. Gould, John Conti, Todd Hovanyecz
Pages 295-308
Rosalie Steier
Page 245
