S. Kirschenbaum, Wayne D. Gray, B. Ehret, Sheryl L. Miller
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引用次数: 11
Abstract
How much time the user spends working on a task versus fiddling with the tool is an important aspect of usability. The concept of the ratio and distribution of tool-only operations to total operations is proposed to capture this aspect.