Man/Computer Communication: From Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral Science Perspectives

摘要

Literature on artificial intelligence and behavioral aspects of command language interactions and data base systems is reviewed. Computational models of human dialogs, computerized information retrieval, and cognitive models of computerized tasks such as text editing are discussed. Man-computer communication problems are considered from end and miduser perspectives. The difficulty of a formal query language is related to the degree of correspondence between the order of expressing query components in the formal language and the natural cognitive structure of the query components. More planning and knowledge of complex syntactic rules is required for translating an information request into a formal query than for using a command language, e.g., for editing.