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Traditional dialogue design applied to modern user interfaces

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 33, Issue 10

Pages 109 - 118

https://doi.org/10.1145/84537.84559

Published: 01 October 1990 Publication History

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Several examples show that principles for the design of usable dialogues are just as important for modern graphical user interfaces as they are for traditional text-based interfaces.

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Special issue on simulation

Oct. 1990

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DOI:10.1145/84537

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