Nimwegen's PhD thesis, The paradox of the guided user: assistance is later that the cited publications, and can be
counter-effective, is from later than the cited articles (2008) and is available online: http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2008-0401-...
The experiment in the Ph.D. research did not tackle CLI vs. GUI, but rather gave two GUIs, one based on internal (i.e., figure out for yourself what you can do) vs. external (give accessible information on what you can do) GUIs. There is a little bit of discussion in chapters 1&2 of the interface styles of CLI vs. GUI.
The experiment in the Ph.D. research did not tackle CLI vs. GUI, but rather gave two GUIs, one based on internal (i.e., figure out for yourself what you can do) vs. external (give accessible information on what you can do) GUIs. There is a little bit of discussion in chapters 1&2 of the interface styles of CLI vs. GUI.