The User Interface Designer's Aide

交互计算系统的人机界面在用户友好性、功能和效率/有效性方面差别很大。对评估用户界面特征的方法的系统研究始于20世纪70年代，现在有了一些实验方法——它们都有不同的优缺点。本研究旨在扩展一种基于按键级别模型的方法，以适应更多的输入方式，特别是图形平板电脑、触摸面板和语音识别器；并将方法/模型嵌入到自动评估可选界面设计的程序中。

Human-user interfaces for interactive computing systems vary greatly in user friendliness, power, and efficiency/effectiveness. Systematic study of means for assessing the characteristics of user interfaces began in the 1970s, and some experimental methods--all having various strengths and weaknesses--are now available. This research aims to extend one of the methods--that based on a keystroke-level model--to accommodate more input modalities, notably graphic tablets, touch panels, and voice recognizers; and to embed the method/model in a program that assesses automatically alternative interface designs.