Glossary

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• Baker’s equation

  BBEE; Baker’s basic ergonomic equation; an expression descr…

• zoom box

  a control in a window’s title bar (in Mac OS) that allows a user t…

• double click

  to click a button twice quickly in succession, typically on a mouse. T…

• participant observation

  observing people by joining them in their activity, e.g. working wit…

• confound

  any factor that might serve as an alternative (and generally undesir…

• resize corner

  a special region at the corner of a window, used to change the size of th…

• lockin

  a process that keeps running unless a person takes overt action to rem…

• X-Windows

  a standard graphics platform for GUI environments. The X-Windows en…