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GOMS
GOMS is a specialized human information processor model for human-computer interaction observation that describes a user's cognitive structure on four components. In the book ''The Psychology of Human Computer Interaction''. written in 1983 by Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran and Allen Newell, the authors introduce: "a set of Goals, a set of Operators, a set of Methods for achieving the goals, and a set of Selections rules for choosing among competing methods for goals." GOMS is a widely used method by usability specialists for computer system designers because it produces quantitative and qualitative predictions of how people will use a proposed system. Overview A GOMS model is composed of methods that are used to achieve specific goals. These methods are then composed of operators at the lowest level. The operators are specific steps that a user performs and are assigned a specific execution time. If a goal can be achieved by more than one method, then selection rules are used to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NGOMSL
NGOMSL (Natural GOMS Language) is a variation of the GOMS technique in human computer interaction. Overview Natural GOMS Language technique was developed by David Kieras in 1988. The motivation was to make GOMS/CCT ( cognitive complexity theory) simple to use, and still keep the power and flexibility of standard GOMS. This was necessary because GOMS did not have very well defined semantics. This lack of definition meant that two equally competent evaluators could do evaluations on the same system and come up with very different results. Kieras's result was the development of high-level (natural language) syntax for GOMS representation with directions for doing a GOMS evaluation. The recipe is referred to as a "top-down, breadth-first" expansion. The user's high-level goals are unfolded until only operators remain. Generally operators are considered to be keystroke-level operations, but that is not a rigid requirement. Since NGOMSL is based on CCT, it has certain properties that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CPM-GOMS
CPM-GOMS is a variation of the GOMS technique in human computer interaction. CPM-GOMS stands for two things: ''Cognitive Perceptual Motor'' and the project planning technique '' Critical Path Method'' (from which it borrows some elements). Overview CPM-GOMS was developed in 1988 by Bonnie John, a former student of Allen Newell. Unlike the other GOMS variations, CPM-GOMS does not assume that the user's interaction is a serial process, and hence can model multitasking behavior that can be exhibited by experienced users. The technique is also based directly on the model human processor - a simplified model of human responses. Evaluators begin a CPM-GOMS analysis in the same way they would a CMN-GOMS analysis. However, when the tasks are broken down just to the level where they are still perceptual or motor, the evaluator applies techniques from the model human processor. The tasks are first joined together serially and then examined to see which actions can be overlapped so t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
