Operation Competition Model: Managing the Variety of Non-Expert Users' Task.

Accession number;99A0182310
Title;Operation Competition Model: Managing the Variety of Non-Expert Users' Task.
Author; ONO TAKEHIKO (Nippon Telegr. and Teleph. Corp., Basic Res. Lab.)
Journal Title;Joho Shori Gakkai Kenkyu Hokoku
Journal Code:Z0031B
ISSN:0919-6072
VOL.98;NO.116(HI-81);PAGE.43-48(1998)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.6, TBL.2, REF.11
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;When non-expert users operate the computer to accomplish some tasks, they use variety of methods. Therefore, it is difficult to predict their operations in detail. I propose the Operation Competition Model(OCM) which describes the competition among a set of operators. It produces the variety of non-expert user's operations by changing the parameter of each competitive operator. OCM has a potential to predict the various types of tasks which can not be explained by the difference of the non-expert users' task knowledge. In this paper, transcription typing task is selected as the example of the non-expert users' task. The detail of the OCM is described at first. Then, the result of the transcription typing is shown and the sequence of operations which is produced by OCM is shown. (author abst.)