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The aim of this study is to examine the efficacy of a user interface with properties that are supposed to encourage exploration. Based on performance and thinking aloud data the efficacy of this exploration-supportive interface was assessed. The exploration-support resulted in faster discovery and understanding of some of the system’s functions, in a bettter task performance in the second half of the series of tasks, and in a better procedural knowledge about the interface. The discrepancy with the findings of a previous experiment, in which subjects were not required to think aloud, is discussed.
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de Mul, S., van Oostendorp, H. (1995). Encouraging Exploratory Learning of a User Interface. In: Nordby, K., Helmersen, P., Gilmore, D.J., Arnesen, S.A. (eds) Human—Computer Interaction. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-5041-2896-4_44
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