"Conversational" Dialogues in Direct-Manipulation Interfaces

David G. Novick, The University of Texas at El Paso

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This paper was published as: Novick, D., (2001). “Conversational” Dialogues in Direct-Manipulation Interfaces, Proceedings of the 2nd IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, Seattle, WA, August 5, 2001

Abstract

This paper reports ongoing research in extending direct-manipulation interfaces by incorporating, via the direct-manipulation modality itself, interaction techniques that add kinds of language features associated with spoken conversation. The paper proposes means of implementing ways for a user of a direct-manipulation system to define new kinds of relations among objects in the interface.