IEEE 2002 Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'02)
Applying Attention Investment to End-User Programming
Arlington, Virginia, USA
September 03-September 06
ISBN: 0-7695-1644-0
Attention Investment is a model to help the designers of end-user programmable systems understand the cognitive drivers for users deciding how to interact with their products. We present the Attention Investment model through examples drawn from an actual design project. This project is developing new functionality within Forms/3, a research test-bed for a concept called "end-user software engineering". As the examples show, our experience is that Attention Investment provides a useful design tool for the development of end-user programming features.