An Interactive Environment for Dialogue Development: Its Design, Use and Evaluation

Hix, Deborah and Hartson, H. Rex (1985) An Interactive Environment for Dialogue Development: Its Design, Use and Evaluation. Technical Report TR-85-35, Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Abstract

The Author's Interactive Didogue Environment (AIDE) of the Dialogue Management System is an integrated set of direct manipulation tools used by a dialogue author to design and implement human-computer interfaces without writing source code. This paper presents the conceptua! dialogue transaction model upon which AIDE is based, describes AIDE, and illustrates how a dialope author develops an interface using AIDE. A preliminary empirical evaluation of the use of AIDE versus the use of a programming language to implement an interface shows very encouraging results.