Objectives: The aim was to support people with cognitive impairment through speech-based dialogues that guide them through everyday tasks such as activities of daily living. The research objectives were to simplify the design of prompting dialogues, to automate the checking of prompting dialogues for syntactic and semantic errors, and to automate the translation of dialogue designs into a form that allows their ready deployment.
Approach: Prompting dialogues are described using CRESS (Communication Representation Employing Systematic Specification).
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
August 2010
The last two decades have seen substantially increased potential for quantitative social science research. This has been made possible by the significant expansion of publicly available social science datasets, the development of new analytical methodologies, such as microsimulation, and increases in computing power. These rich resources do, however, bring with them substantial challenges associated with organizing and using data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The aims of this work were: to define an abstract notation for interactive decision trees; to formally analyse exploration errors in such trees through automated translation to Lotos (language of temporal ordering specification); to generate tree implementations through automated translation for an existing tree viewer, and to demonstrate the approach on healthcare examples created by the CGT (clinical guidance tree) project.
Approach: An abstract and machine-readable notation was developed for describing clinical guidance trees: Ad/it (abstract decision/interactive trees). A methodology has been designed for creating trees using Ad/it.