Design and Evaluation of Computing Technologies to Promote Learning of Feature-Rich Software

计算技术的设计和评估以促进功能丰富的软件的学习

• 批准号: RGPIN-2015-05125
• 负责人: Bunt, Andrea
• 金额: $ 2.11万
• 依托单位: University of Manitoba
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=634720
• 关键词: Design; Evaluation; Computing; Technologies; Promote

Feature-rich software applications, such as photo-editing software, word-processing applications, and spreadsheet applications, are used by over one billion people each year to accomplish diverse productivity-related and recreational tasks. These applications are very powerful, in part owing to the hundreds (or even thousands) of commands and options that they make available. At the same time, the sheer volume of commands can make feature-rich software difficult for individuals to learn and use. Consequently, techniques for promoting efficient access to needed commands and for increasing the ease with which users learn feature-rich software have received considerable attention by the HCI and applied AI communities over the past 30 years. While this prior research has contributed several important techniques and design guidelines, the landscape of feature-rich software continues to shift substantially, raising a host of new challenges and opportunities including: a decentralization of the help resources upon which users rely, the increasing availability of web-based knowledge on command-to-task mappings, the increasing popularity of user-contributed content, and the growing diversity of computer users which now also includes young children.

每年有超过10亿人使用诸如照片编辑软件、文字处理应用和电子表格应用之类的丰富的软件应用来完成各种与生产力相关的任务和娱乐任务。这些应用程序非常强大，部分原因是它们提供了数百（甚至数千）的命令和选项。与此同时，大量的命令可能会使功能丰富的软件难以让个人学习和使用。因此，在过去的30年里，促进有效访问所需命令和增加用户学习功能丰富的软件的便利性的技术受到了HCI和应用AI社区的极大关注。虽然这项先前的研究已经贡献了一些重要的技术和设计指南，但功能丰富的软件的前景继续发生重大变化，提出了一系列新的挑战和机遇，包括：用户所依赖的帮助资源的分散化，命令到任务映射的基于web的知识的日益可用性，用户贡献的内容的日益普及，以及电脑使用者的日益多样化，现在还包括年幼的儿童。