Interface design issues for advice-giving expert systems
Communications of the ACMPublished 1 January 1987Open access
John M. Carroll, Jean McKendree
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Advice giving could become the first successful domain for intelligent interfaces, according to research published in “Advice Giving: Towards a future of intelligent interfaces.”
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Advice giving could become the first successful domain for intelligent interfaces.
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