Written by the author of the best-selling HyperText & HyperMedia, this book is an excellent
guide to the methods of usability engineering. The book provides the tools needed to avoid …

Learning from worked-out examples is very effective for initial skill acquisition, at least when
learners actively explain the solution steps in the examples to themselves. However …

Electronic documents offer the possibility of presenting virtually unlimited amounts of
information to readers in forms which can be rapidly searched and structured to suit their …

Mobile computing devices, such as smart phones, offer benefits that may be especially
valuable to older adults (age 65+). Yet, older adults have been shown to have difficulty …

It has suggested that interactive computer users find “exploratory learning” to be an effective
and attractive strategy for learning a new system or investigating unknown features of …

An Introduction to This Special Issue of AI Magazine Page 1 SUMMER 1997 9 Web. Indeed,
the authors of each article included in this special issue have promised to create and maintain …

This research focuses on the self-reported use of owner's manuals for automotive vehicles.
The results indicate that owner's manuals are frequently not read. Nevertheless, people …

Although computer literacy amounts to a complex set of interconnected capacities, teachers
of writing and communication have tended to ignore functional issues, which are crucial to …

A comprehensive, formal comparison of strategies used by preservice teachers to learn how
to use new technology has yet to be researched. Understanding the relative strengths and …

Asynchronous conferencing is emerging as a tool that can create opportunities for
collaboration and support the inquiry process. This paper describes one such tool (ACT) …