Discourse management in intelligent, multimodal user interfaces

Author

Puerta, Angel R. ; Bonnell, Ronald D.

Author_Institution

Center for Machine Intelligence, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

26-28 Mar 1989

Firstpage

662

Lastpage

665

Abstract

Recent advances in software and hardware are allowing researchers to implement user interfaces that are able to communicate with the user in multiple modes, such as text, video and audio. Many multimedia interfaces are knowledge based as well. With the richness of presentation modes available, the discourse manager must make many complex decisions to choose the appropriate mode or modes to be used in each particular instance. The authors discuss the requirements of such a discourse manager, describe the knowledge sources needed to fulfil the requirements, and offer a sample blackboard architecture to illustrate its implementation

Keywords

knowledge based systems; software engineering; user interfaces; audio; blackboard architecture; discourse manager; intelligent interfaces; knowledge-based interfaces; multimodal user interfaces; text; video; Computer architecture; Computer graphics; Hardware; Intelligent systems; Knowledge management; Machine intelligence; Mice; Prototypes; Speech; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 1989. Proceedings., Twenty-First Southeastern Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tallahassee, FL

ISSN

0094-2898

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1933-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.1989.72550

Filename

72550