Tyburn Tyburn Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch and the southern end of Edgware Road in present-day London. It took its name from the Tyburn Brook, a tributary of the River Westbourne. The name Tyburn, from Teo Bourne meaning 'boundary stream', is quite widely occurring, and the Tyburn Brook should not be confused with the better known River Tyburn, which is the next tributary of the River Thames to the east of the Westbourne. For many centuries, the name Tyburn was synonymous with capital punishment, it having been the principal
Gulf of execution what it means. Both phrases are mentioned in Donald Norman's 1986 book "User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-computer Interaction." This can be illustrated through the discussion of a VCR problem. Let us imagine that a user would like to record a television show. They see the solution to this problem as simply pressing the "Record" button. However, in reality, to record a show on a VCR, several actions must be taken: The difference between the user's perceived execution actions and the required actions is the gulf of execution. Gulf of execution In human computer interaction, the gulf of