A Survey of Three Dialogue Models

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1986, Pages 244-275

  Green, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dialogue models; human computer interaction; user interface management

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY - FINITE AUTOMATA; COMPUTER GRAPHICS - APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER INTERFACES - HUMAN FACTORS;

COMPUTATION BY ABSTRACT DEVICES; DIALOG MODELS; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION; USER INTERFACE MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0022753706     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/24054.24057     Document Type: Article

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