Looking for Unexpected Consequences of Interface Design Decisions: The MeMo Workbench
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This paper discusses and illustrates work in progress on the MEMO workbench for early model-based usability evaluation of interface designs. Characteristic features of the workbench include (a) the prediction of errors via rules that refer to user attributes; and (b) the automatic generation of methods for performing specific tasks and for recovering from errors.
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