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An Expert Consultant for Visual Design

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Abstract

Behavioral experimenters have hypothesized that fundamental principles of human communication can be discovered to help designers of computer systems create a better human-computer communications interface. A large number of experiments have contributed to the growth of a corpus of such principles. Compilations of principles have been published, yet computer systems continue to have poorly designed interfaces becaus

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    The principles are not widely known; and

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    The principles cannot be readily applied.

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Roach, J.W. (1991). Video. In: Klinger, A. (eds) Human-Machine Interactive Systems. Languages and Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5883-1_8

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