Structure and development of human-computer interfaces

Thesis/Dissertation · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6071886

Johnson, D H

The Dialogue Management System (DMS), the setting for this research, is a system for designing, implementing, testing, and modifying interactive human computer systems. As in the early stages of software engineering development, current approaches to human-computer interface design are ad hoc, unstructured, and incomplete. The primary goal of this research was to develop a structural, descriptive, language-oriented model of human-computer interaction, based on a theory of human-computer interaction. This model is a design and implementation model, serving as the framework for a dialogue engineering methodology for human-computer interface design and interactive tools for human-computer interface implementation. An evaluation of the work was conducted to determine its efficiency and usefulness in developing human computer interfaces. A group of subject dialogue authors using AIDE created and modified a prespecified interface in a mean time of just over one hour, while a group of subject application programmers averaged nearly four hours to program the identical interface.

• Research Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6071886
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990200* -- Mathematics & Computers
EVALUATION
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
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