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» XIV.1 - January / February, 2007
Issue Features
"Help yourself!: We have better things to do..."
Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson
A pattern language for user assistance
Mike Hughes
Arbitration of a help system
Garett Dworman
Assisting e-government users with animated talking faces
P. Foglia, M. Zanda, C.A. Prete, F. Giuntoli
Embedded user assistance: the future for software help?
Matthew Ellison
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: combining text and visual interfaces for security-system administration
William Yurcik, Esa M. Rantanen, Michael B. Twidale, Ramona Su Thompson
In this issue
Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson
Managing, just barely
Fred Sampson
My learning assistant: question-asking and -answering in synthetic game environments
Sachin Patil, Kay Howell
New & upcoming titles
Gerard Torenvliet
Open source bicycles
Gary Marsden
Out of the video arcade, into the office: where computer games can lead productivity software
Jerrod Larson
Overcoming a common help design challenge: no access to users
Doris Holloway
Review of "Shape: Talking About Seeing and Doing by George Stiny"
Bernice Glenn
Taking usability practitioners to task
Chauncey E. Wilson
Taxonomies to tax the couch-potato's cortex
Aaron Marcus
Three challenges for design
Don Norman
Who you gonna call?
Fred Sampson
[Blank] my [blank]: mad libs for designers
Jonathan Arnowitz, Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson