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Improving SOLO's User-Interface: An Empirical Study of User Behavior and a Proposal for Cost Effectiveness Enhancements to SOLO. CAL Research Group Technical Report No. 7.
Lewis, Matthew W. – 1980
This report describes an in-depth analysis of the errors made by users of SOLO, a programming language written for Open University students studying cognitive psychology. The study was designed to (1) determine the effectiveness of SOLO's current error-handling routines by evaluating how often SOLO produced "sensible" messages or…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software