GOMS Applications

GOMS Applications

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Notes:

--GOMS has come a long way from a method to analyze a text editing system, were we simply to edit a manuscript by deleting and inserting text..

--Today we analyze many Elaborate Interface such as the Interface for SunMicrosystems ’s WWW Homepage.* J. Neilson...

--Working on a new WWW page for Sun he was to trying to add new buttons and if so how many. His Task was to find whether Adding a button to a graphic interface was a good financial choice.

--He Used a a customized version of KLM to estimate the time it takes to scan, see, and reject a button. He only had 24 hours to get a simple clear explanation. His KLM estimate was $1/2 million to reject, only a ballpark figure.

--Flexibility was the key(he needed something fast).

He addressed the issue that more HCI tools needed to do quick accurate predictions.