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All users have to start off by learning some aspects of the software they wish to use. Transfer theory suggests that those with the most prior experience will often learn fastest, but this need not always be so.

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Thomas, R.C. (1998). Learning and Transfer. In: Long Term Human-Computer Interaction. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1548-9_4

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