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Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology archive
Proceedings of the 8th annual ACM symposium on User interface and software technology table of contents

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pages: 181 - 187

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-709-X

Authors

S. Pangoli	CNUCE - CNR, Via S.Maria 36, 56126 Pisa, Italy
F. Paternó	CNUCE - CNR, Via S.Maria 36, 56126 Pisa, Italy

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SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	Jacob Eisenstein , Charles Rich, Agents and GUIs from task models, Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, January 13-16, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA
	Federico Garcia, CACTUS: automated tutorial course generation for software applications, Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, p.113-120, January 09-12, 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
	Andreas Lecerof , Fabio Paternò, Automatic Support for Usability Evaluation, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.24 n.10, p.863-888, October 1998
	Fabio Paternó, Moving tasks at the center of the development, execution and evaluation process, ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, v.28 n.3, p.77-81, July 1996

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
Subjects: Training, help, and documentation

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Management, Performance, Theory

Keywords:
automatic help, development process for Interactive Systems software, formal notations, task-driven design of architectures

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F. Paternó: colleagues

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