Integrating Human Engineering into the Design of the User Interface of a Large Scale System

Abstract

This paper proposes allocating to user and developer organizations a portion of the human engineering required to design a user interface of a large scale system. The integration of the human engineering activities and the benefits realized by both organizations are discussed.

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