Human-computer interaction through natural language and hypermedia in AlFresco

Abstract

Multimodality is a powerful concept for dealing with dialogue cohesion in a Human-Computer Natural Language centered system. Two issues, important for a the more effective exploitation of the potentially large bandwidth of communication provided by this situation are presented: (i) the integration of navigational and mediated aspects of interaction; (ii) the use of a graphical representation of the dialogue structure to allow the possibility of direct manipulation. Examples from real interaction with A L F RESCO , a prototype for art exploration, are used to give a concrete idea of the implemented concepts.

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“…He also holds an M.Sc. (1993) anda Ph.D. (1995) (Patras, Greece, 1997-2000, as a Technical Director with Ahead Relationship Mediators SA (Athens, 2000(Athens, -2004, also serving as member of its BoD during [2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008]. He has served as a project evaluator for the European Commission, the Corallia Clusters Initiative, and the University of Porto, and as a proposal evaluator for the European Commission, for the General Secretariat for Research and Technology and for the Ministry of Education (Greece), and for other organisations.…”