GeoDialogue: A Software Agent Enabling Collaborative Dialogues between a User and a Conversational GIS

Author

Wang, Hongmei ; Cai, Guoray ; MacEachren, Alan M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Northern Kentucky Univ., Highland Heights, KY

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

357

Lastpage

360

Abstract

A fundamental challenge that must be met to achieve a usable conversational interface to geographic information system (GIS) is how to enable a more natural interaction between the user and the system. This paper presents a design of an agent-based computational model, PlanGraph, and implementation of this model in a software agent, GeoDialogue, as a dialogue manager for a conversational GIS. This dialogue agent enables intelligent collaborative human-GIS dialogues. The capabilities of this agent are demonstrated through its performance in a conversational GIS, Dave_G.

Keywords

geographic information systems; groupware; human computer interaction; interactive systems; software agents; user interfaces; PlanGraph; conversational geographic information system; intelligent collaborative human-GIS dialogue; software agent; usable conversational interface; Algorithm design and analysis; Artificial intelligence; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Computational modeling; Geographic Information Systems; Helium; Humans; Software agents; Speech; Agent-based model; Collaborative dialogues; Software agent; conversational GIS; human-computer interaction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2008. ICTAI '08. 20th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

ISSN

1082-3409

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3440-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTAI.2008.15

Filename

4669796