Guidelines for Logical Ergonomics of Screen Design: Report of the European Community Commission

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to study the logical ergonimics of screen design. This document is addressed to data-processing system development managers within the Commission. The authors hope that these recommendations will provide a practical guide to both form and content of screen design. In particular, this paper emphasizes two points. First, taking into account the Commission's various office systems and computer environments, the VT220 is taken as the basic reference for design recommendations. Applications developers can thus be required to respect the specifications of existing equipment at the expense of certain recommendations, while waiting for the arrival of standardized software production tools. Then, IBM's notice ''Architecture Unifiee d'Application'' (AUA) or ''System Architecture for Applications'' (SAA) may lead to modification of certain elements of this document, such as the designation of function keys. The AUA specifications are not presently available. A future revision of this document is therefore foreseeable. 19 refs., 17 figs. (ERA citation 13:008368)