Back in the old days, Phil Barnard and colleagues did some preliminary work. Check this:
Barnard, Phil, MacLean, Allan, Hammond, Nick (1984): User Representations of Ordered Sequences of Command Operations. In: Shackel, Brian (ed.): INTERACT 84 - 1st IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. September 4-7, 1984, London, UK. p.289-293 Also Steve Payne did some work on abbreviations at one time. Not in the context of software development, true, but some of the results should generalise. Thos Green Steven Clarke said: >Could anyone point me to papers or other work investigating and >describing the usability of command line interfaces, especially in the >context of software development? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Steven > 27 Allerton Park, Leeds LS7 4ND +44-(0)-113-226-6687 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/greenery/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List ([email protected]) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
