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Gesture elicitation studies are a popular means of gaining valuable insights into how users interact with novel input devices. One of the problems elicitation faces is that of legacy bias, when elicited interactions are biased by prior technologies use. In response, methodologies have been introduced to reduce legacy bias. This is the first study that formally examines the production method of reducing legacy bias (i.e., repeated proposals for a single referent). This is done through a between-subject study that had 27 participants per group (control and production) with 17 referents placed in a virtual environment using a head-mounted display. This study found that over a range of referents, legacy bias was not significantly reduced over production trials. Instead, production reduced participant consensus on proposals. However, in the set of referents that elicited the most legacy biased proposals, production was an effective means of reducing legacy bias, with an overall reduction of 11.93% for the chance of eliciting a legacy bias proposal. 

SUMMARY Schrenkiella parvula, a leading extremophyte model in Brassicaceae, can grow and complete its lifecycle under multiple environmental stresses, including high salinity. Yet, the key physiological and structural traits underlying its stress‐adapted lifestyle are unknown along with trade‐offs when surviving salt stress at the expense of growth and reproduction. We aimed to identify the influential adaptive trait responses that lead to stress‐resilient and uncompromised growth across developmental stages when treated with salt at levels known to inhibit growth in Arabidopsis and most crops. Its resilient growth was promoted by traits that synergistically allowed primary root growth in seedlings, the expansion of xylem vessels across the root‐shoot continuum, and a high capacity to maintain tissue water levels by developing thicker succulent leaves while enabling photosynthesis during salt stress. A successful transition from vegetative to reproductive phase was initiated by salt‐induced early flowering, resulting in viable seeds. Self‐fertilization in salt‐induced early flowering was dependent upon filament elongation in flowers otherwise aborted in the absence of salt during comparable plant ages. The maintenance of leaf water status promoting growth, and early flowering to ensure reproductive success in a changing environment, were among the most influential traits that contributed to the extremophytic lifestyle ofS. parvula.