User friendly future: Applications of new information technology
Smith, Linda C.
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Title
User friendly future: Applications of new information technology
Author(s)
Smith, Linda C.
Issue Date
1986
Keyword(s)
Libraries --Automation
User interfaces (Computer systems) Design
Abstract
"This paper considers the clinic theme, ""What Is User Friendly?"" from a
scientific and technical perspective. As Burch has observed in the introduction
to a bibliography on computer ergonomics and user friendly design,
the term user friendly is an anomaly as a technical term: ""Most words
borrowed from science enter the popular language stream long after their
associated discoveries have become history. The term 'user friendly' is an
exception to this rule; it became popular long before a scientific basis for
'user friendliness' had even been looked for.""
1 The current emphasis on
user friendliness is both market- and technology-driven. There is an interest
in making computers more useful tools for people who are not computer
specialists, thus expanding the potential user population; and there are
new technological components that may be employed to make systems
easier to use."
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (23rd : 1986)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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