Hix, DeborahHartson, H. Rex2013-06-192013-06-191985http://hdl.handle.net/10919/20157The Author's Interactive Didogue Environment (AIDE) of the Dialogue Management System is an integrated set of direct manipulation tools used by a dialogue author to design and implement human-computer interfaces without writing source code. This paper presents the conceptua! dialogue transaction model upon which AIDE is based, describes AIDE, and illustrates how a dialope author develops an interface using AIDE. A preliminary empirical evaluation of the use of AIDE versus the use of a programming language to implement an interface shows very encouraging results.application/pdfenIn CopyrightTechnical reportTR-85-35http://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000007/01/TR-85-35.pdf