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Database Systems of the 90s (IBM 1990)

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Abstract

The usability of software is becoming an increasingly important issue with vast economic implications. Indeed, the productivity and satisfaction of end-users can be a determining factor for the success of database systems.

This paper reports on a survey and an analysis of work related to the usability of database systems and includes a discussion of interfaces based on linear formal languages, natural languages, menus, and graphics. It is shown that not only the details of the human-computer interface are important but also the larger context including, in particular, the user's knowledge of the data and its structure as well as his conceptual model of the retrieval mechanism of the system.

Author's address as of October 1, 1990: Prof. Dr. Th. Strothotte, Department of Computer Science, Free University of Berlin, Nestorstraße 8–9, D-1000 Berlin 31, Germany.

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    Rainer Gimnich, Klaus Kunkel & Thomas Strothotte

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Gimnich, R., Kunkel, K., Strothotte, T. (1990). Human factors of database systems. In: Blaser, A. (eds) Database Systems of the 90s. IBM 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 466. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-53397-4_34

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