CAREER: Dialogue Context in Graphical User Interfaces: Representation, Portability and Uses

本建议书描述了Manuel A博士的职业发展计划。Pdrez-Quifiones。目标是进一步发展波多黎各大学Mayagilez校区（UPRM）的人机交互研究和教育，并促进波多黎各软件产业的发展，以创建K-12教育软件。拟议的研究将创建算法，工具和方法来捕获和使用图形用户界面中的对话上下文，并允许跨桌面和PDA的这种情况下的可移植性。教育事业计划包括为波多黎各的学校开发K-12教育软件。研究计划包括： 定义影响对话语境的因素分类。分类法将包括如何在基于上下文的交互设计中使用这些因素的例子。 图形使用者介面中追踪对话情境演算法之设计与实作。这些算法将基于自然语言界面上的现有算法，但将进行适当修改，以允许对话上下文在不同的界面风格之间进行移植。 使用对话情境的新互动方法的设计与评估。可用性研究将用于评估对话环境在教育计划中的有效性。教育计划包括一个帮助开发K-12教育软件的项目，以及其他相关活动：与工业部门一起参与，帮助刺激K-12软件的本地软件行业的发展。与Oracle Caribbean和Quantum Business Engineering，Inc.合作帮助波多黎各学校开发教育软件。研究工作的结果将纳入为教育倡议开发的软件。 通过组织当地研讨会，增加与波多黎各其他教育工作者的合作，讨论我们学生与教育软件相关的具体需求。 为本科生和研究生修订和创建用户界面、移动的计算和教育软件领域的新课程。继续与UPRM的预工程计划和工业联盟计划以及其他专业组织合作。此处提出的职业计划是Pdrez-Quifiones博士以前作为国家实验室研究员，几个学术机构的教授和讲师以及几个教育用途共享软件标题的开发人员的经验的扩展和整合。

This proposal describes the Career Development Plan for Dr. Manuel A. Pdrez-Quifiones. The goal is to further develop the Human-Computer Interaction research and education at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagilez Campus (UPRM), and to foster the development of a software industry in Puerto Rico for the creation of K-12 educational software. The proposed research will create algorithms, tools, and methodologies to capture and use dialogue-context in graphical user interfaces, and to allow for portability of this context across desktop and PDAs. The educational career plans include the development of K-12 educational software for schools in Puerto Rico.The research plan includes: Definition of a taxonomy of factors that affect dialogue-context. The taxonomy will include examples on how these factors can be used in the design of context-based interaction. Design and implementation of algorithms to track dialogue-context in a graphical user interface. These algorithms will be based on existing algorithms on natural language interfaces, but will be modified as appropriate to allow dialogue context to be portable between different interface styles. Design and evaluation of new interaction methods that use dialogue-context. Usability studies will be used to assess the effectiveness of dialogue-context in educational programs.The educational plan includes a project to help develop educational software for K-12, as well as other related activities: Participate with the industrial sector to help stimulate the development of a local software industry for K-12 software. Partnership with Oracle Caribbean and Quantum Business Engineering, Inc. is already in place to help develop educational software for Puerto Rico schools. Results from the research effort will be incorporated into the software developed for the educational initiative. Increase collaboration with other educators in Puerto Rico through the organization of local symposiums to discuss the specific needs for our students as related with educational software. Revision and creation of new courses for undergraduate and graduate students in the area of user interfaces, mobile computing and educational software. Continued collaboration in PreEngineering Program, and Industrial Affiliates Program at UPRM, and in other professional organizations.The Career Plan herein proposed is an extension and integration of previous experiences Dr. Pdrez-Quifiones has had as researcher in national laboratories, professor and instructor at several academic institutions, and developer of several shareware software titles for educational uses.