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A visit to a very small database: lessons from managing the review of papers submitted for CHI'91

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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Monterey, California, United States

Pages: 471 - 478

Year of Publication: 1992

ISBN:0-89791-513-5

Authors

John Rieman
Susan Davies
Jonathan Roberts

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Many of the principles that guide user-interface design for commercial systems do not scale down to simple applications developed on personal computers. These “very small systems” are typicaly designed within a high-level application such as a database or a spreadsheet. The entire development process may take no more than a few days. In this restricted context, iterative design and usability testing are unaffordable luxuries, while detailed task analysis and early focus on users fail because the task and users will not coalesce until the system is in place. We describe our experiences with developing and using a very small sytem. We present suggestions for successful design in similar situations.

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