Computer Science and Technology: A Testbed for Providing Uniformity to User-Computer Interaction Languages

摘要

The differing user-computer interaction languages, implemented for conducting the same applications-specific functions on different systems, represent significant stumbling blocks to users. Toward alleviating this problem area, the use of an intermediary processor to uniformize interaction languages is presented. A framework for such processing is characterized in terms of the required intermediary actions and the logical capabilities needed to perform those actions. The testbed software facilities, centered on the NBS Network Access Machine, are then portrayed. Throughout, an example application, using a common command language subset to access five bibliographic retrieval systems, is described.