AGENT-BASED END-USER DEVELOPMENT.

The goal of agent-based end-user development (EUD) is to empower end users with agents they can instruct directly. This process of instruction is completely transparent to the user; that is, it is not based on opaque adaptation mechanisms. Conceptually, the idea of instructing agents includes what i...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 47; no. 9; pp. 43 - 47
Autores principales: Repenning, Alexander, Ioannidou, Andri
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Sep2004
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Sumario:The goal of agent-based end-user development (EUD) is to empower end users with agents they can instruct directly. This process of instruction is completely transparent to the user; that is, it is not based on opaque adaptation mechanisms. Conceptually, the idea of instructing agents includes what is often called end-user programming [3] that addresses some of the major objections users have toward agents, such as the lack of trust and the need to train them. However, it poses the huge challenge of creating development tools suits able for end users who possess no programming background or interest in learning how to program.