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Usability Glossary: capture error


a type of slip (a kind of error) where a more frequent and more practiced behavior takes place when a similar, but less familiar, action was intended. Examples include telling someone your home phone number when you intended to give your work number or typing your name when you intended to type another word that begins with the same few letters.

see also

automaticity
error
mode error
slip

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Glossary Categories > Design Principles > Psychological Principles
Glossary Categories > Psychology > Psychological Principles
Glossary Categories > Interaction Design > Errors

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