Automatic generation of help from interface design models
CHI '94 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Creating user manuals for using in collaborative design
Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
UIML: an appliance-independent XML user interface language
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
A universal information appliance
IBM Systems Journal
Automated generation of agent behaviour from formal models of interaction
AVI '00 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
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In this paper, we propose a new way of retrieving and presenting manual data from the Web, based on a state transition diagram and data conversion into synchronized multi-modal contents. The manual data of a target device is assumed to consist of three parts: (1) manual documents in XML, (2) state transition diagrams in XML, and (3) three-dimensional computer graphics (3D CG) of the target device, which are also in XML. The prototype under development is called a Mobile Web Manual (MWM). The major features of MWM are as follows: (a) acquisition of the present state of a target device by wireless communication, (b) retrieval of manual data by finding a path between the present state and a given goal state, (c) automatic generation of 3D animation from the retrieved manual data, and (d) presentation by 3D animation synchronized with synthesized speech.