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We present a formalization of screen oriented dialogue concepts which are widely used in modern dialogue systems. The dialogue concepts which are considered are menus, forms, and windows. With respect to different dialogue styles as e.g. command language oriented dialogues or dialogues based on using a pointing device several different types of abstract models are introduced and discussed.
The presented concepts may be used within a functional specification of a dialogue interface. The specification method which we are using is the Vienna Development Method (VDM).
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Studer, R. (1984). Abstraction concepts for modeling screen oriented dialogue interfaces. In: Joseph, M., Shyamasundar, R. (eds) Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. FSTTCS 1984. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 181. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-13883-8_76
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