An interface agent for nonroutine tasks
Yuzo Fujishima · 1997
To assist an application software user in nonroutine tasks, a method named GIO was devised.By the method, the user can automatically achieve again a goal that was once achieved.The goal is represented in terms of input to and output from the application.The pieces of input that are collectively sufficient to achieve the goal are extracted from a record of input to and output from the application by a sub-method called input slicing.In performing input slicing, the knowledge about the relevance between pieces of input is used.Then the extracted pieces are input to the application and the goal is achieved.To evaluate the method, an interface agent named DIA was implemented.DIA assists a program debugger user in reproducing a state of the program to be debugged.