Knowing when to quit

Lewis, C. H. (1993). Knowing when to quit: When to abandon a task and continue with another. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 3(2), 119-144.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1993

DOI

10.1007/bf01099424

Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01099424

Cited from

art_aesthetics, cognitive_science, engineering_design, human_computer_interaction, psychology

Cited by

10 citations across 10 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Accommodation

  • This source(Bibliography-only; uncited. UNVERIFIABLE — no such article could be located in UMUAI vol. 3 (1993) or elsewhere after a genuine search; likely fabricated/mis-templated. Left link-less. See flag.)

• Affordance

  • This sourceBibliography-only. UNVERIFIABLE: no article with this title/author could be confirmed in User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (Clayton Lewis's known 1993 work is the book Task-Centered User Interface Design with Rieman). Left link-less; likely fabricated (FYI, tier C — never cited in body).

• Contrast

  • This sourceTitle/venue appear fabricated or misattributed; left link-less. (Bibliography-only; not cited in body.)

• Design Prototyping

  • This source(Bibliography-only — uncited in body; not independently verified, left link-less.)

• Gestalt Principles

  • This sourceTier C: bibliography only. Existence-verified and linked. NOTE: title/abstract should be reconfirmed against the journal; the venue and 3(2):119–144 locus match UMUAI.

• Human-Centered Accommodation
  • A common failure is pretending accommodation is universal when in reality it always involves some boundary beyond which users must adapt
• Mental Model
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Processing Fluency
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.

Domain-specific

• Cognitive Load

  • This sourceUNVERIFIED — see flag. No such article could be located; the citation appears spurious. The well-known Lewis 1993 work is Lewis & Rieman, Task-Centered User Interface Design. Bibliography-only; left link-less.

• User-Centered Design
  • True UCD requires observational data, behavior analysis, and sometimes designing around latent needs

Verification

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