Specifying complex dialogs in ALGAE

  • Authors:
  • Mark A. Flecchia;R. Daniel Bergeron

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Computer Associates, Wakefield, MA;Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham

  • Venue:
  • CHI '87 Proceedings of the SIGCHI/GI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and Graphics Interface
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

The complexity and high development costs of user interfaces has led to research into the design of User Interface Management Systems (UIMSs). At the heart of a UIMS is a facility for specifying a dialog control component, which processes user actions and coordinates program responses. This paper describes a language called ALGAE, which allows the specification of multi-threaded, event driven dialogs.