creators_name: Howes, A. creators_name: Payne, S.J. creators_name: Moffat, D. editors_name: Howard, Steve editors_name: Hammond, Judy editors_name: Lindgaard, Gitte type: confpaper datestamp: 1998-06-26 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:13 metadata_visibility: show title: Automated theory-based procurement evaluation ispublished: pub subjects: appl-cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: Metrics, usability evaluation, automatic tools, task-action grammar, consumer product abstract: In this paper we report progress on software for evaluating computer interfaces for the purposes of procurement. The software takes a description of the interface to be evaluated and outputs metrics describing the consistency of the interface. The metrics are determined by automatically constructing a Task-Action Grammar from a manual description. We illustrate the evaluation tool with examples of evaluations of abbreviation structures and syntactic/semantic alignment. date: 1997 date_type: published publisher: Chapman & Hall, London pagerange: 270-277 refereed: FALSE citation: Howes, A. and Payne, S.J. and Moffat, D. (1997) Automated theory-based procurement evaluation. [Conference Paper] document_url: http://cogprints.org/711/1/Interact%2797.html