| Myers, B.A., Smith, D.C., and Horn, B. "Report of the End-User Programming' Working Group," in Languages for Developing User Interfaces. 1992. Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett. pp. 343-366. |
....do what is available from the menus and dialog boxes. The important research problem with scripting and customization is that the threshold is still too high it is too difficult to learn how to program. The threshold and ceiling issue is illustrated by the research on Gentle Slope Systems [7] [37] which are systems where for each incremental increase in the level of customizability, the user only needs to learn an incremental amount. This is contrasted with most systems which have walls where the user must stop and learn many new concepts and techniques to make further progress (see ....
Myers, B.A., Smith, D.C., and Horn, B. "Report of the End-User Programming' Working Group," in Languages for Developing User Interfaces. 1992. Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett. pp. 343-366.
....likely to benefit from research on the human side. There are surprising gaps in the knowledge about how to make programming languages effective for people, and we are working to fill those in. Gentle Slope Systems Our research is closely aligned with the concept of Gentle Slope Systems [4] [21] which are systems where for each incremental increase in the level of customizability, the user only needs to learn an incremental amount. This is contrasted with most systems which have walls where the user must stop and learn many new concepts and techniques to make further progress (see ....
Myers, B.A., Smith, D.C., and Horn, B. "Report of the End-User Programming' Working Group," in Languages for Developing User Interfaces. 1992. Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett. pp. 343-366.
.... 1313 phenomena that require continuous movement such as gradients of molecules, optical paths, collisions of rigid objects, velocity and acceleration of projectiles, etc. Gentle Slope Systems The proposed research is closely aligned with the concept of Gentle Slope Systems [Dertouzos 1992] Myers 1992b] which are systems where for each incremental increase in the level of customizability, the user only needs to learn an incremental amount. This is contrasted with most systems which have walls where the user must stop and learn many new concepts and techniques to make further progress (see ....
Brad A. Myers, David Canfield Smith and Bruce Horn. "Report of the End-User Programming' Working Group, " Languages for Developing User Interfaces, Boston, MA, Jones and Bartlett. 1992b. pp. 343-366.
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