Help by guided tasks: utilizing UIMS knowledge

  • Authors:
  • Robin Tuck;Dan R. Olsen

  • Affiliations:
  • WordPerfect Corporation, 1555 Technology Way, Orem, UT;Brigham Young University, Computer Science Department, Provo, UT

  • Venue:
  • CHI '90 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

A help delivery mechanism integrated with a semantic UIMS is presented. The guided task paradigm is implemented where a user participates in a guided step-by- step demonstration. Help authors create task scripts composed of statements drawn from the semantic definition of the user interface. The help delivery system automatically translates such statements into user instructions which guide the user through the actions necessary to accomplish a task. Any application developed using this UIMS automatically gets this help authoring and presentation facility with no added effort.