eprintid: 8166
rev_number: 8
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/00/81/66
datestamp: 2008-02-14 08:23:06
lastmod: 2014-04-04 00:39:40
status_changed: 2012-08-14 15:24:30
type: book
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Funke, Joachim
creators_name: Gerdes, Heike
title: Manuale für Videorekorder: Auswahl von Textinhalten unter Verwendung der Theorie endlicher Automaten
title_en: Manuals for video recorders: Selecting text on the basis of finite state automata theory
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-150
divisions: i-100200
abstract_translated_text: Improvements in the design of manuals were up to now concerned primarily with features of layout. The present article tries to point out how to make a selection of content of the information to be given to a user. Starting with the theory of finite automata as a tool for describing how a device works, we then construct transition matrices which can be transformed into procedural text. For illustrating purposes we selected the task of timer programming of a video recorder. A total of 40 novice subjects were confronted with either the original manual or with the version for which we improved the content selection. After reading the manual subjects had to fulfill certain programming tasks. It shows up that there are advantages of the improved manual on measures of performance and knowledge. These advantages hold only for the initial learning phase, but this time period is a critical one for novices. So the proposed strategy of optimizing manuals seems promising especially if one adds further treatments which are mentioned in the final comment.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 1993
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00008166
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-1
schriftenreihe_order: 040
ppn_swb: 1347868364
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-81668
language: ger
bibsort: FUNKEJOACHMANUALEFUR1993
full_text_status: public
citation:   Funke, Joachim ; Gerdes, Heike  (1993) Manuale für Videorekorder: Auswahl von Textinhalten unter Verwendung der Theorie endlicher Automaten.    .      
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/8166/1/Funke_Gerdes_1993.pdf