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Scenario: Play Start playing a round of bridge
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  1. Four users agree to play bridge. The teams are Harrison and Tuan vs Jack and David.
  2. All four users sit down at a table, in clockwise order: Harrison, Jack, Tuan, David.
  3. Harrison is randomly chosen to be the dealer. He sets the deck to be a standard 52-card deck and shuffles it.
  4. Harrison distributes 13 cards to each player's hand.
  5. After all cards have been dealt, person to left of dealer (Jack) begins bidding process.
  6. Tuan calls 1 spade. David calls 2 clubs. Harrison passes. Jack passes. Tuan calls 2 spades. Everyone passes after that. The contract is 2 spades.
  7. Harrison is the dummy.
  8. David starts with ace of clubs.
  9. Harrison lays down his hand face up for all to see. Tuan plays the 3 of clubs from the dummy's hand.
  10. Jack plays the 7 of clubs.
  11. Tuan trumps with the 2 of spades.
  12. Tuan wins round, takes trick, and play continues.

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  • pros: affordances for highlighting selection
  • cons: user must discover actions by experimentation

Efficiency

  • pros: very efficient, types of clicks map to set actions (ie single click selects top, double click all)
  • cons: natural constraints on actions (ie pick random card from deck)

Visibility

  • pros:** staggered stack,** names are color coded to distinguish user specific selection** user color on cards played will fade over time
  • cons: user most must discover some options

Errors

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