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The error-prone task of programming a VCR is representative of a growing number of end-user programmable devices. To help understand this task a display-based model of VCR programming was developed and implemented as a computational cognitive model. The model accurately predicts the vast majority of correct and error recovery keypresses collected from 9 subjects during 56 successfully programmed shows. The model supports two taxonomies for classifying errors; one at the keypress level, the other at the goal and subgoal level. The taxonomies have descriptive utility and are being used to understand the non-random nature, discovery, and recovery of errors in programmable devices.
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Gray, W.D. (1995). VCR-As-Paradigm: a Study and Taxonomy of Errors in an Interactive Task. In: Nordby, K., Helmersen, P., Gilmore, D.J., Arnesen, S.A. (eds) Human—Computer Interaction. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-5041-2896-4_45
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