BibTex
@inproceedings{Polson:1987:10.1145/29933.30856,
author = {Polson, Peter and Bovair, Susan and Kieras, David},
title = {Transfer between text editors},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI/GI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and Graphics Interface},
series = {GI + CHI 1987},
year = {1987},
issn = {0713-5425},
isbn = {0-89791-213-6},
location = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
pages = {27--32},
numpages = {6},
doi = {10.1145/29933.30856},
acmdoi = {10.1145/29933.30856},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}
Abstract
This paper describes a successful test of a quantitative model that accounts for large positive transfer effects between similar screen editors, between different line editors and from line editors to a screen editor, and between text and graphic editors. The model is tested in an experiment using two very similar full-screen text-editors differing only in the structure of their editing commands, verb-noun vs noun-verb. Quantitative predictions for training time were derived from a production system model based on the Polson and Kieras (1985) model of text editing.