April 1999
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
18h 38m
English
book
Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design
by Larry L. Constantine, Lucy A. D. Lockwood
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Index
3M, 129
4GLs, 483
7±2, 46 (sidebar)
A
Abstract components. See Components
Abstract models, 26–27
Abstract prototypes, 127–128. See also Content model
Joint Essential Modeling and, 501
TeleGuida example, 378–382
use cases and, 105–109
Accelerated development, 472–475, 497
Access keys, 175–176 (Figure 8-5)
progressive usage and, 277 (sidebar)
Access, Microsoft, 483
Access privileges in TeleGuida example, 362 (Table 15-1)
Access Rule, 47–48, 194, 231, 265
Accuracy, and efficiency, 312
Acquisition facilities, 268, 273–275
Acquisition scale, in SUSS, 421
Action-object metaphor, 469 (sidebar)
Activities, flexible staging of, 36–39
Activity model, 33–37, 34 (Figure 2-2), 485 (Figure 20-1), 514 (Figure 21-1)
Actors and roles, ...
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