Question-Answer Approach to Human-Computer Interaction in Collaborative Designing

Abstract

The chapter presents a question-answer approach to the programming of Human-Computer Interactions (HCI) during collaborative development of software intensive systems. Efficiency of the general work can be essentially increased if the human part of the work is informed by precedents and executed with a special kind of pseudo-program by “intellectual processors.” The role of any processor of such type is fulfilled by a designer. The suggested approach was investigated and evolved until an instrumental system providing the pseudo-code programming of intellectual processors combined with computer processors. Interactions between processors are based on question-answer reasoning. Pseudo-code programs and their corresponding instrumental means can be combined easily with traditional HCI.