Organic Name Reactions for the students and aspirants of Chemistry12th.pptx
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1. Group Members
1. Muzamil Altaf
2. M.Arqam Awais
3. Basit Riaz
4. Muhammad Aslam
5. MuhammadAfshan
2. Issues
different types of support at different times
implementation and presentation both important
all need careful design
Types of user support
quick reference:
Quick reference is used primarily as a reminder to the user of the
details of tools he is basically familiar with and has used before. It
may,for example, be used to find a particular command option, or to
remind the user of the syntax of the command.
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3. 3
– task specific help:
Task-specific help is required when the user has
encountered a problem in performing a particular task or when he is
uncertain how to apply the tool to his particular problem.
– full explanation:
The more experienced or inquisitive user may require a
full explanation of a tool or command to enable him to understand it
more fully. This explanation will almost certainly include
information that the user does not need at that time.
– tutorial:
The fourth type of support required by users is tutorial
help. This is particularly aimed at new users of a tool and provides
step-by-step instruction (perhaps by working through examples) of
how to use the tool.
4. 4
• Provided by help and documentation
– help - problem-oriented and specific
– documentation - system-oriented and general
– same design principles apply to both
Requirements
• Availability
– continuous access concurrent to main application
• Accuracy and completeness
– help matches and covers actual system behaviour
5. Consistency
between different parts of the help system and paper
documentation
Robustness
correct error handling and predictable behaviour
Flexibility
allows user to interact in a way appropriate to experience and task
Unobtrusiveness
does not prevent the user continuing with work
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6. Command assistance
User requests help on particular command
e.g., UNIX man, DOS help
Good for quick reference
Assumes user knows what to look for
Command prompts
Provide information about correct usage when an error occurs
Good for simple syntactic errors
Also assumes knowledge of the command
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10. The system should offer help on correct syntax when a user
gets the command syntax incorrect
In WIMP systems, the menus provide a degree of command
prompting and error avoidance
First, the menus (and toolbars/buttons) identify available commands
Second, the parameters of a command are set out by the dialog of the
command itself
Third, any file parameters can usually be achieved by browsing to a file
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11. A GUI can prevent overt syntax errors through the dialog structure
Of course,
this doesn’t
mean the
users can’t
still make
errors in the
sense of not
achieving what
they wanted
(and possibly
not knowing
that they don’t
have what they
wanted)
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12. Context sensitive help
help request interpreted according to context in which it occurs. e.g.
tooltips
On-line tutorials
user works through basics of application in a test environment
can be useful but are often inflexible
On-line documentation
paper documentation is made available on computer
continually available in common medium
can be difficult to browse
hypertext used to support browsing
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15. wizards
task specific tool leads the user through task, step by step, using user’s answers
to specific questions
Most often seen for installation procedures
useful for safe completion of complex or infrequent tasks
constrained task execution so limited flexibility
must allow user to go back
assistants
monitor user behaviour and offer contextual advice
must be under user control e.g. XP smart tags
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