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Do not overwhelm the user with feedback.

While feedback is a good thing, too much feedback becomes confusing, as it now requires the user to scan and interpret the display for information relevant to their performance.

  1. Avoid display of information primarily of interest to a developer (such as decoding scores, utterance durations, etc.)
  2. Any displayed information must clearly contribute to increased interface usability.


Alex Rudnicky
Thu May 9 15:10:03 EDT 1996