A Workbench for Developing User Interface Agents

小行星9360764 工作的计算机化，特别是传统上由手工方法完成的信息工作，给新的计算机用户带来了许多问题。 随着计算机系统变得越来越复杂，它们的人类用户在成功或有效地应用底层系统功能方面越来越困难。 研究已经开始集中于使用人机接口来解决这些问题，方法是创建用户接口的组件，称为“代理”或“接口代理”，它们以各种方式合作支持人类。 然而，到目前为止，这些接口代理人一直是个人研究或系统开发工作的定制产品。 为了使界面剂的概念和益处发挥其更广泛的潜力，需要更强大的工具来开发和维护界面剂。 本研究旨在评估创建这样一个接口代理生成器（GINA）的可行性。 拟议的工具是围绕一个接口代理建设方法称为COGNET，这是创建，成功应用和行为验证的主要研究员在以前的研究。 建议的研究开发和分析了一个详细的GINA架构，然后实现和测试底层代理执行引擎的骨架版本。

9360764 Zachary Computerization of work, particularly information-based work which has been traditionally performed by manual methods, has created many problems for new computer users. As computer systems grow more complex, their human users have increasingly difficulty in successfully or efficiently applying the underlying system functionality. Research has begun to focus on using the human- computer interface to solve such problems by creating components of the user interface, called `agents' or `interface agents', that cooperatively support the human in a variety of ways. To date, however, these interface agents have been the custom-built products of individual research or system-development efforts. For the concept and benefit of interface agents to reach its broader potential, more powerful tools are needed for their development and maintenance. This research proposes to assess the feasibility of creating such a Generator of INterface Agents (GINA). The proposed tool is developed around an interface agent-building methodology called COGNET, that was created, successfully applied and behaviorally validated by the Principal Investigator in prior research. The proposed research develops and analyzes a detailed GINA architecture, then implements and tests a skeletal version of the underlying agent-execution engine.