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Task Analysis is a well-known approach that has been used to analyse usability of existing applications. Recently there is an increasing interest to apply this type of technique to the design and development of new applications, too. However if user interface designers want to apply task modelling on a larger scale, to industrial size case studies, the possibility of reuse is useful for saving time and effort. In this paper we present an approach for designing reusable structures in task models that allows designers to focus more clearly on the needs of the user and that speeds up the application design.
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Breedvelt-Schouten, I.M., Paternó, F.D., Severijns, C.A. (1997). Reusable Structures in Task Models. In: Harrison, M.D., Torres, J.C. (eds) Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems ’97. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6878-3_15
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