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The usability of Web pages and applications is a fundamental factor in their success. Web designers are taking advantage of the new technologies (scripting languages, Java, etc.) to increase the power, user friendliness and easiness of use of Web pages.
This work presents two techniques that can be used to achieve this goal: the use of cognitive metaphors to build user interfaces, and the use of Bounded Natural Language, to allow the user to express queries in an intuitive way.
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This work was partially supported by CICYT grant TEL99-0335-C04-02 and Xunta de Galicia grant PGIDT99PXI10502A.
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Brisaboa, N.R., Penabad, M.R., Places, Á.S., Rodríguez, F.J. (2001). Tools for the Design of User Friendly Web Applications. In: Bauknecht, K., Madria, S.K., Pernul, G. (eds) Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies. EC-Web 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2115. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44700-8_3
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