Cognitive Artifacts & Windows 95
Beginning of paper
The article on Cognitive Artifacts by David A. Norman deals with the
theories and principles of artifacts as they relate to the user during execution
and completion of tasks. These principles and theories that Norman speaks about
may be applied to any graphical user interface, however I have chose ....
Middle of paper
.... answer the wizard's questions and
the computer performs the work. Making sure everything is setup properly
without the errors that could occur in configuring the task yourself. The
wizard performs all the functions on its little to-do list without having the
user worrying about whether he/she remembered to include all the commands. On
the side of personal views the user may see the wizard as a new task to learn
but in general it is simpler than having to configure the application yourself ....
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