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Usability Engineering
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Usability Engineering

by Jakob Nielsen
November 1994
Intermediate to advanced
362 pages
17h 23m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter
3
Generations
of
User
Interfaces
User
interface design is still too new a field to have attracted much
historical
analysis. People have mostly been too busy building
interfaces
to worry where they came from, even though a few
historical
treatments are starting to emerge [Anonymous 1990;
Card and Moran
1988;
Gaines
1984;
Gaines and Shaw
1986a
and b;
Goldberg
1988;
Grudin
1990a;
Nielsen
1990a,
Chapter 3; Nyce and
Kahn
1991;
Perry and
Voelcker
1989; Rheingold
1985;
Teitelman
1986].
See also [Ramsey and Grimes 1983] for a survey of early
research in the user interface field.
In
the computer field, the term "generation" is often used to
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