Using Cognitive Models to Create Menus

1 October 1985

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting

Vol. 29 (7) , 655-658
https://doi.org/10.1177/154193128502900706

Abstract

This experiment was conducted to generate menus for a command language based on the cognitive structures of expert and naive users. Expert and novice menus were generated from networks derived by applying a network analysis algorithm (Pathfinder) to similarity ratings of command functions. The results of a second experiment to test the effectiveness of the menus as training (transition) devices for using the functions in a command-driven style will be reported.

Keywords

COGNITIVE MODEL

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