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Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules

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Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite

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Goals Operators Methods And Selections

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Goals Operators Methods Selections

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Goal Operations Methods And Selection

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Government Order Manuscript Series

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Goals Option Media And Standards

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Granite Oaks Middle School

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Goals Operators Methods and Selection

Miscellaneous » Unclassified

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Gulf Of Mexico Seawater

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Great Oak Middle School

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Goals Operators Methods and Selection Rules

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Ground Operations Management System

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GOMS is a specialized human information processor model for human-computer interaction observation that describes a user's cognitive structure on four components. In the book The Psychology of Human Computer Interaction. written in 1983 by Stuart K. Card, Thomas P. Moran and Allen Newell, the authors introduce: "a set of Goals, a set of Operators, a set of Methods for achieving the goals, and a set of Selections rules for choosing among competing methods for goals." GOMS is a widely used method by usability specialists for computer system designers because it produces quantitative and qualitative predictions of how people will use a proposed system.

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