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Help by guided tasks: utilizing UIMS knowledge
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Empowering people table of contents
Seattle, Washington, United States
Pages: 71 - 78  
Year of Publication: 1990
ISBN:0-201-50932-6
Authors
Robin Tuck  WordPerfect Corporation, 1555 Technology Way, Orem, UT
Dan R. Olsen  Brigham Young University, Computer Science Department, Provo, UT
Sponsor
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

A help delivery mechanism integrated with a semantic UIMS is presented. The guided task paradigm is implemented where a user participates in a guided step-by- step demonstration. Help authors create task scripts composed of statements drawn from the semantic definition of the user interface. The help delivery system automatically translates such statements into user instructions which guide the user through the actions necessary to accomplish a task. Any application developed using this UIMS automatically gets this help authoring and presentation facility with no added effort.


REFERENCES

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Carroll 87
John M. Carroll , Jean McKendree, Interface design issues for advice-giving expert systems, Communications of the ACM, v.30 n.1, p.14-32, Jan. 1987  [doi>10.1145/7885.7886]
Hill 88
W. C. Hill , J. R. Miller, Justified advice: a semi-naturalistic study of advisory strategies, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.185-190, May 15-19, 1988, Washington, D.C., United States  [doi>10.1145/57167.57198]
 
Kearsley 88
Greg Kearsley, Online help systems: design and implementation, Ablex Publishing Corp., Norwood, NJ, 1988
Olsen 86
Dan R. Olsen, Jr., MIKE: the menu interaction kontrol environment, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), v.5 n.4, p.318-344, Oct. 1986  [doi>10.1145/27623.28868]
 
Olsen 88
Dan R. Olsen, Jr. , John R. Dance, Macros by Example in Graphical UIMS, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, v.8 n.1, p.68-78, January 1988  [doi>10.1109/38.491]
Olsen 89
D. R. Olsen, Jr., A programming language basis for user interface, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Wings for the mind, p.171-176, March 1989
Suka 88
Piyawadee Sukaviriya, Dynamic construction of animated help from application context, Proceedings of the 1st annual ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on User Interface Software, p.190-202, October 17-19, 1988, Alberta, Canada  [doi>10.1145/62402.62433]

CITED BY  4
Susan Palmiter , Jay Elkerton, An evaluation of animated demonstrations of learning computer-based tasks, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Reaching through technology, p.257-263, April 27-May 02, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Piyawadee Noi Sukaviriya , Jeyakumar Muthukumarasamy , Anton Spaans , Hans J. J. de Graaff, Automatic generation of textual, audio, and animated help in UIDE: the User Interface Design, Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced visual interfaces, p.44-52, June 01-04, 1994, Bari, Italy
Gurminder Singh , Chun Hong Kok , Teng Ye Ngan, Druid: a system for demonstrational rapid user interface development, Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on User interface software and technology, p.167-177, October 03-05, 1990, Snowbird, Utah, United States
Susan Palmiter , Jay Elkerton, Animated demonstrations for learning procedural computer-based tasks, Human-Computer Interaction, v.8 n.3, p.193-216, September 1993

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES

Additional Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.3 COMPUTER GRAPHICS
      I.3.6 Methodology and Techniques
          Subjects: Interaction techniques


General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

Collaborative Colleagues:
Robin Tuck: colleagues
Dan R. Olsen: colleagues

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