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Advances in human factors/ergonomics. Vol 2 — Human-computer dialogue design: R.W. Ehrich and R.C. Williges (Eds) Elsevier, Holland. 1986. ISBN 0 444 42567 5, pp 380 + x, US $70.75, Dfl 206.00

✍ Scribed by Murray Sinclair

Book ID: 102636209
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1987
Tongue: English
Weight: 254 KB
Volume: 18
Category: Article
ISSN: 0003-6870
DOI: 10.1016/0003-6870(87)90013-5

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✦ Synopsis

The book brings together the results of a series of research projects carried out mainly at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, sponsored principally by the Office of Naval Research. There is a total of 26 authors named in the 11 chapters. The authors state that the four relevant research areas that were identified are:

(1) the dialogue management system, (2) the dialogue author, (3) the applications programmer, (4) the end-user interface.

These four research areas are addressed in 11 chapters, as follows:

Multi-disciplinary research in human-computer dialogue design. This is an introductory chapter of 8 pages, outlining the philosophy of the research.