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Brown-Grant, Johel.

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The use of descriptive and prescriptive content for the design of dialog boxes as a determining factor in the usability of GUI style guides.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The use of descriptive and prescriptive content for the design of dialog boxes as a determining factor in the usability of GUI style guides./
Author:	Brown-Grant, Johel.
Description:	172 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Robert Krull.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-06A.
Subject:	Computer Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3057662
ISBN:	0493731083

The use of descriptive and prescriptive content for the design of dialog boxes as a determining factor in the usability of GUI style guides.
Brown-Grant, Johel.

The use of descriptive and prescriptive content for the design of dialog boxes as a determining factor in the usability of GUI style guides. - 172 p.

Adviser: Robert Krull.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002.

This research study seeks to explore and understand how differences in the textual presentation of graphical user interface (GUI) style guides enhance or diminish user performance, and, as a consequence, the usability of the style guides. Because of the nature of interface design, style guides can be written in a prescriptive format, which emphasizes the actions that guide the design process, thus, paying special attention to the role of the designer, the end-user, in the design process. However, GUI style guides can also be written in a descriptive format, which emphasizes the interface being designed, the context in which it appears and its constituting elements.

ISBN: 0493731083Subjects--Topical Terms:

626642
Computer Science.

The use of descriptive and prescriptive content for the design of dialog boxes as a determining factor in the usability of GUI style guides.
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520 $a Based on those differences, this study proposed five hypotheses, which, summarized, contend that the prescriptive guidelines will have a more positive impact on user performance than the descriptive guidelines. To test those hypotheses a mixed design approach was adopted to examine five dependent variables. To collect the data, participants performed a paper-and-pencil task in which they sketched four dialog boxes using the prescriptive and descriptive test-guidelines.
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