GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-92-18
Title:
Automatic Generation of Context-Sensitive "Show and Tell" Help
Authors:
Piyawadee "Noi" Sukaviriya
J.J. "Hans" de Graaff
Abstract:
Textual help has become insufficient to guide users to carry out
procedural tasks. Help for a direct manipulation interface requires that
textual help be verbose in order to describe procedures accurately and
specifically. In this paper, we attempt to alleviate this problem by
presenting procedural help using coordinated textual and animated help.
Our help presentation is dynamically created at runtime and is derived
from the underlying user interface representations of the application
model. Generating help from the user interface presentations allow help
contents to be tailored specifically to the current context.
Keywords:
Animated help, automatic help, textual help, user interface
representations, UIDE
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