Tutorial: Discourse Models for Interaction Design

Abstract

This tutorial has the primary objective that participants will learn about an open and fully implemented approach to model interaction design with discourse models that we developed for specifying (classes of) dialogues, and to automated GUI generation from such models.The content includes Communicative Acts as the basic elements, as well as Adjacency Pair and RST relations for constructing the discourse models using these elements. It also includes an iterative-incremental process of user-interface generation using such models.The target audience can be students or educators primarily of software or systems engineering, or information systems. They can also be practitioners creating software, embedded systems or information systems with a user interface.