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An architecture for expert user interface and design management

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UIST '89: Proceedings of the 2nd annual ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 43 - 52

https://doi.org/10.1145/73660.73666

Published: 13 November 1989 Publication History

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From a user interface point of view, expert systems are different from applications in general in that the reasoning process of the system often defines the dialogue structure. This has several advantages, but there may also be problems due to the lack of separation between functionality and user interface. This paper investigates the possibility of treating an expert system user interface as separate from the reasoning process of the system, and the consequences thereof.

We propose that an expert system user interface can be seen as a combination of two different structures; the surface dialogue, comprising mainly lexical and syntactical aspects, and the session discourse which represents the interaction between user and system on a discourse level. A proposed architecture for a software tool managing these two structures is presented and discussed, with particular emphasis on the session discourse manager.

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Wærn YHägglund SRamberg RRankin IHarrius J(1995)Computational Advice and Explanations - Behavioural and Computational AspectsHuman—Computer Interaction10.1007/978-1-5041-2896-4_34(203-206)Online publication date: 1995
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-5041-2896-4_34
Matthews P(1993)Using Actions to Generate SentencesAI and Cognitive Science ’9210.1007/978-1-4471-3207-3_10(111-120)Online publication date: 1993
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3207-3_10
Matthews PMok H(1992)Transforming expert system output into natural language in a process control environmentProceedings of the 1992 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied computing: technological challenges of the 1990's10.1145/143559.143601(116-122)Online publication date: 1-Apr-1992
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/143559.143601

Index Terms

An architecture for expert user interface and design management
1. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Decision support systems
      1. Expert systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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UIST '89: Proceedings of the 2nd annual ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on User interface software and technology

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DOI:10.1145/73660

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Wærn YHägglund SRamberg RRankin IHarrius J(1995)Computational Advice and Explanations - Behavioural and Computational AspectsHuman—Computer Interaction10.1007/978-1-5041-2896-4_34(203-206)Online publication date: 1995
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-5041-2896-4_34
Matthews P(1993)Using Actions to Generate SentencesAI and Cognitive Science ’9210.1007/978-1-4471-3207-3_10(111-120)Online publication date: 1993
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3207-3_10
Matthews PMok H(1992)Transforming expert system output into natural language in a process control environmentProceedings of the 1992 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied computing: technological challenges of the 1990's10.1145/143559.143601(116-122)Online publication date: 1-Apr-1992
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/143559.143601

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