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| Does context sensitivity the interface help Christof van Nimwegen Herre van Oostendorp Hermina Tabachneck Schijf Institute Information and Computing Sciences Center for Content and Knowledge Engineering Utrecht University Padualaan Utrecht The Netherlands christof herre schijf ABSTRACT common phenomenon graphical interfaces have some degree context sensitivity Providing context sensitive feedback thus making recall certain knowledge unnecessary and relieving working memory means externalizing information Examples are visual feedback aids such greying out menu items With internalization certain task information less directly available and needs internalized and stored memory conducted experiment investigating the effects externalization internalization performance and knowledge acquisition conditions subjects solved isomorph missionaries and cannibals internalized externalized After this knowledge the problem rules was tested Internalization resulted better knowledge and reaching fewer dead end problem states Months later internalization subjects had faster problem recognition the task and better performance similar task transfer This research contributes HCI design guidelines for problem solving tasks Keywords Interface visualization screen representation problem solving planning externalization information INTRODUCTION During the last decades software has seen tremendous development Becoming more advanced the amount diversity and turnover demand fast learning from users Acce | |||||||||||||
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