Abstract
Graphic User Interface (GUI) is commonly considered to be superior to Text-based User Interface (TUI). This study compares GUI and TUI in an electronic dental record system. Several usability analysis techniques compared the relative effectiveness of a GUI and a TUI. Expert users and novice users were evaluated in time required and steps needed to complete the task. A within-subject design was used to evaluate if the experience with either interface will affect task performance. The results show that the GUI interface was not better than the TUI for expert users. GUI interface was better for novice users. For novice users there was a learning transfer effect from TUI to GUI. This means a user interface is user-friendly or not depending on the mapping between the user interface and tasks. GUI by itself may or may not be better than TUI.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 125-129 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium |
| Volume | 2007 |
| State | Published - Oct 11 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- General Medicine
Keywords
- Computer Graphics
- User-Computer Interface
- Medical Records Systems, Computerized
- Ergonomics
- Humans
- Computer Literacy
- Dental Records
- Task Performance and Analysis