Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design

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

Abstraction, 26–27, 38

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, ...