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Computers can present data in different ways to fit different tasks and different users’ experience, abilities and disabilities. Transformation frameworks allow developers and competent end-users to experiment with alternative notations more quickly, and thus discover new presentations appropriate for particular sets of circumstances. This paper illustrates this in two separate contexts: musical notations and interfaces to complex applications software.
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Brown, S.S., Robinson, P. Interacting with notations: two examples of the use of a transformation system. Univ Access Inf Soc 4, 96–104 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-005-0115-4
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