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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.
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confdates: July 14-16
conference: Interact'97 (Sixth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction)
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  - family: Payne
    given: S.J.
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  - family: Moffat
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date: 1997
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datestamp: 1998-06-26
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  - family: Hammond
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  - family: Lindgaard
    given: Gitte
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keywords: 'Metrics, usability evaluation, automatic tools, task-action grammar, consumer product'
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  - appl-cog-psy
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title: Automated theory-based procurement evaluation
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