Human-Machine Interactive Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Accessing Knowledge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Freestyle System

      • Stephen R. Levine, Susan F. Ehrlich

      Pages 3-21

   3. Action Propagation Model for User Interface Programs

      • Yukari Shirota, Tosiyasu L. Kunii

      Pages 23-35

   4. A Fully Integrated Natural Language Knowledge Base Management System

      • Russell J. Abbott

      Pages 37-60

   5. Communicating with Pictorial Databases

      • Arturo Pizano, Alfonso Cardenas, Allen Klinger

      Pages 61-87

   6. Mnemonic Assistance and User Productivity

      • Allen Klinger

      Pages 89-101

   7. Technology, Information, and the Individual

      • Robert R. Korfhage, Keith S. Joseph

      Pages 103-122

   8. Communication Tools for Human-Computer Knowledge Transfer

      • Jody Paul

      Pages 123-182

3. Display and Design

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Video

      • J. W. Roach

      Pages 185-197

   3. Parallel Coordinates

      • Alfred Inselberg, Bernard Dimsdale

      Pages 199-233

   4. Tools for Interactive Prototyping of Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional User Interfaces

      • Alessandro Giacalone, Arie Kaufman

      Pages 235-253

   5. Toward a Three-Dimensional User Interface

      • Arie Kaufman, Roni Yagel

      Pages 255-267

   6. A Real-Time Display for Tactile Images

      • Filip Fuma, John Bradley

      Pages 269-276

   7. A Graphical Interface for a Geometric Modeling Database

      • Deepa Krishnan, Tosiyasu L. Kunii

      Pages 277-297

   8. A Dialect for Imaging and Graphics

      • Oleh J. Tretiak, Sanjay Bhasin

      Pages 299-325

4. Back Matter

   Pages 327-328

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Many hardware devices present either results or alternatives selected by computers to users. A few are video display terminals (VDTs), touch-tone telephones, and computer-generated speech systems. In part this book con­ cerns the impact and implications of such tools. Alternatively this is an attempt to provide material for researchers, students, and managers con­ cerned with computer interfaces. The subject of computer interfaces is at one level a technical subarea sharing common interests with the broad dis­ ciplines of computer science, psychology, and bioengineering. However, it is also a topic thrust to the forefront of interest of a wide variety of individuals who confront one of the most striking technological changes that has occurred in human history-the introduction of contact with computing devices as an essential component of many kinds of ordinary transactions. Point of entry sales, travel and entertainment reservations, and library infor­ mation, are commonly conducted today by interaction with digital calculat­ ing devices that did not exist in the recent past. The papers in this book present several concerns arising from the widespread use of computing. One involves the future implications of further advances of this technology. This is a twofold issue: (a) the potential conse­ quences of changing the basic way that information is managed in areas ranging from design, engineering, and management/planning to information access, education, and clerical function; and (b) improvements that could be instituted from further development of the special characteristics of display techniques, technologies, and algorithms.

• Transfer
• algorithms
• computer
• computer science
• database
• education
• graphics
• interaction
• interactive system
• knowledge transfer
• management
• psychology
• technology
• user interface
• video

• University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

  Allen Klinger

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