SHORE 2001 : The Impact of Window Desktop Design on User Performance : Microsoft Windows Explorer vs ClockWise Win3D

The Impact of Window Desktop Design on User Performance : Microsoft Windows Explorer vs. ClockWise Win3D

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the staff of HCIL-1 laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park, for their generosity in providing the Yosemite machine for our experiment and also the use of the laboratory. We would like to thank Miss Anne Rose for her assistance on software installation. We would also like to thank Professor Ben Shneiderman of University of Maryland, College Park for his invaluable advice and his arrangement to let us use the HCIL-1 laboratory.

There is also the tremendous effort of our English proofreader, who spent his precious time in proofreading and correcting the English in this report. His name is Serey Lay (local American).

Lastly, we would like to thank our subjects who have contributed their time to perform the experiments and who have generously given us their advice regarding the study.

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Appendices

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Preparation Materials

Experimental Materials