
title: | Determining user interface semantics using communicating agents |
author(s): | Lein Ton and Leon J.M. Rothkrantz |
published in: | September 2001 |
appeared in: |
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2001) Zelezna Ruda, Czech Republic. Published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2166 |
pages: | 349-356 |
publisher: | Springer-Verlag |
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Abstract
The Internet offers remote access to many information systems to users
independent of time and location.
This paper describes an agent based
approach to deal with issues that rise from the differences between
user interfaces to functionally similar information systems. The
approach yields agents that interact with user interfaces to extract
the model of the underlying information system. The model is
represented by labeling input fields of the interface with their
meaning. The agents are modeled after human dialogue behavior and
human computer interaction. The interaction agents are capable of
independently and robustly querying the information system without
explicit instructions. Two types of agents are implemented and tested
on European sites of rail travel planners. The agent design and test
results will be reported.