That's curious Katie. I seem to remember when I did my human factors component of my psych degree, my lecturer had done research way back when with systems administrators and found that they accomplished tasks far more quickly with the command line than a GUI based system. Sorry but I don't have a reference to hand.
I would imagine that differences between performances on each mode of interaction will depend in large part upon the competency of the user: so experienced sys admins will whizz through a CLI and stumble on a GUI whereas new users need to learn the commands for a CLI but can explore and figure out menus of even a new application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40330 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
