(No semantic or grammar debates, I promise) I'm researching a number of health care software packages. Many of them have some way of short-cutting data entry, such as pre-selection indicating the absence of unlikely conditions.
One tool, however, leans heavily on progressively, and supposedly intelligently, filling in data based on answers given as the user moves through the queries for content. By a certain point fairly early, all content is ostensibly filled and the user must accept by default, delete, or alter it. Since this content is highly detailed and of course critically important to get right, I suspect that there is no real gain by the pre-filling. In fact, I wonder if the error rate might actually go up with this model. So, is anyone familiar with user research done comparing the two methods, or others, for interactive, detailed, lengthy applications? Other thoughts? ________________________________________________________________ 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
