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A number of design models have been proposed in the area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to support user-centered system design. High-level, abstract task models and detailed interface specification languages are among the most widely used. However, the need for designing applications to run in a number of different devices and platforms presents new issues that must be addressed from a platform-separable perspective. In this paper, we show how an interaction-as-conversation metaphor may face this challenge, and present an interaction modeling language that allows designers to build a blueprint of the range of interactions that will be able to take place in the application. Our goal is twofold: to motivate the designers to reflect upon the interactive solution they are creating, and at the same time provide a skeleton interaction specification that may be easily instantiated for different platforms or devices.
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Barbosa, S.D.J., de Paula, M.G. (2003). Designing and Evaluating Interaction as Conversation: A Modeling Language Based on Semiotic Engineering. In: Jorge, J.A., Jardim Nunes, N., Falcão e Cunha, J. (eds) Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification. DSV-IS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2844. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39929-2_2
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