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Motivation, practice and guidelines for ‘undoing’

Yang Yiya

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An ‘undo’ capability is an interactive recovery facility provided by interfaces to enable users to reverse the effects of previously issued commands. The paper reviews the motivation offered in the literature for having such a facility; surveys existing practice in providing such a facility and formulates a set of guidelines based on a user-oriented research project to assist future practice in designing an undo capability for interfaces.

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Key concepts: Undo, Undoing, Computer science, Set (abstract data type), Human–computer interaction, Interface (matter), Software engineering, Operating system