Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fischer, Gerhard
• Lemke, Andreas C.
• Mastaglio, Thomas
• Morch, Anders I.
• Whiteside, John
• Chew, Jane Carrasco

Titel

Using critics to empower users

Ist Teil von

• Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Empowering people; 01-05 Apr. 1990, 1990, p.337-347

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY, USA: ACM

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

Quelle

ACM Digital Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We describe the critiquing approach to building knowledge-based interactive systems. Critiquing supports computer users in their problem solving and learning activities. The challenges for the next generation of knowledge-based systems provide a context for the development of this paradigm. We discuss critics from the perspective of overcoming the problems of high-functionality computer systems, of providing a new class of systems to support learning, of extending applications-oriented construction kits to design environments, and of providing an alternative to traditional autonomous expert systems. One of the critiquing systems we have built - JANUS, a critic for architectural design - is used as an example of the key aspects of the critiquing process. We also survey additional critiquing systems developed in our and other research groups.