Hi Judy,
Would it not be interesting too, to carry out such an experiment in
order to compare two groups having to script multichoice situations
presented in plain english (or any natural language):
- one group would have to translate it using " switch case" structure
and the other using "if then else" structure.
Measures could be time and precison (errors) completed, may be, with
subjective evaluations of difficulty, workload, understandability...
Best regards from Grenoble
André
Le Monday, 20 Feb 2006, à 19:27 Europe/Paris, Judy Perry a écrit :
This reminds me of an ACM article I'm having the students read this
week
(It's something like 'Text vs Hypertext: Which is easier to use to find
information' or some such thing).
It involved two groups with reference material on Sherlockiana -- one
group had all the info in a Hypercard stack and the other had the same
material in a book/encyclopedic reference format.
The test subjects were given a list of questions and timed as they
found
the answers.
It would be interesting to repeat it with my students -- one group
using
the built-in docs and the other using Dave's indexed PDF...
(considering the idea... anybody got any good questions?)
Judy
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, David Burgun wrote:
It depends on if you are "using" the document or just proof reading
it. If you are using it, then it makes finding things really easy.
All you do it enter a word or phrase like "mouseStack" and it will
return a list of all the occurrences with a rating bar similar to
spotlight. Then you just double click the line you want to see and it
instantly pops up in the PDF file.
I'm "using" the document and have found it makes finding things much
easier/quicker.
Cheers
Dave
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