From Information to User Assistance: A Support System for a User Technology Organization  

Our plight as users of process information is much like that of the users of the information for our software products. Like them, we want to do useful work and get appropriate assistance when we need it. Instead of just reading about a task such as writing an information plan, we want the templates and samples to use when writing the plan. Just-in-time assistance, experience captured in a useful form, would suit us just fine. This paper, by the designers and developers of a system that supports the work and processes of a user technology organization, presents the information design issues that we encountered and the design of the system that we created.

Hargis, Gretchen, Deirdre Longo and Lindsay Bennion. STC Proceedings (1999). Articles>Documentation>Online>Help