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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Hemstreet, Deborah
<DHemstreet -at- kaydon -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I think the issue is, though, that the partial screen captures are TOO
> partial.
>
> If I have the tooltip and part of the toolbar, with the top part of the
> window, I am more likely to locate the command, than just seeing the
> tooltip floating in space.
>
> Partials can work - it just depends on how wisely they are cut...
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The authors compared various versions of this technique to the
plain-text versions for the same procedure. Users were able to
complete tasks more quickly using "graphstracts". The technique "was
especially strong in tasks where the user
had to navigate dialog boxes and interact with certain controls"
However, users commented that having at least some text in addition
would be helpful.
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