BibTex
@inproceedings{John:1987:10.1145/29933.30857,
author = {John, Bonnie and Newell, Allen},
title = {Predicting the time to recall computer command abbreviations},
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 = {33--40},
numpages = {8},
doi = {10.1145/29933.30857},
acmdoi = {10.1145/29933.30857},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}
Abstract
A GOMS theory of stimulus-response compatibility is shown to predict response-time performance on a command/abbreviation encoding task. Working with parameters that were set by an earlier study and which have rational, task-meaningful interpretations as mapping, motor, perception and retrieval operators, zero-parameter predictions were made that fit the observed performance with r2 = 0.776 (p<0.05). The reasonableness of the parameters, the algorithms used to generate the predictions, and the weighting assumption used to combine algorithms into a single prediction are discussed.