GINA: A Workbench for Constructing Interface Agents
Wayne W. Zachary, Jean-Christophe Le Mentec, Serge Schremmer · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 1996
The Generator of INterface Agents (GINA) is a software workbench that supports the development of interface agents. Viewing agent development as a cognitive engineering process, GINA supports development of agents from cognitive models of the human whose functions are being automated and/or supported by the agent. Built around the COGNET cognitive task analysis language, GINA provides software tools to support building and editing cognitive models, translating the models into executable forms that provide the reasoning kernel of an intelligent agent, building a software shell that allows this kernel to communicate with the targeted application environment, and testing and debugging the resulting agent.