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Developing human-computer (man-machine) interaction system components is time consuming, error-prone, and it is hard to produce high-quality interfaces with good usability. A fundamental reason for this unsatisfactory situation lies in the way the development process is organized, which widely works on a syntactic level in terms of sets of widgets, rather than on a semantic level that captures the task-relevant flow of information. As a step towards the development of human-computer interaction system components on principled grounds, we present an abstract model of human-computer interaction based on concepts borrowed from natural language processing, prominently operational models of human dialogs. Major ingredients of this model are speech act specifications and information state-based update rules capturing the effects of these speech acts, adapted to particularities of human-computer communication. The model is a crucial prerequisite for automatically building man-machine interfaces on the basis of high-level specifications.
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Horacek, H. (2006). An Abstract Model of Man-Machine Interaction Based on Concepts from NL Dialog Processing. In: Kop, C., Fliedl, G., Mayr, H.C., Métais, E. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3999. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11765448_12
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