The DoD Gateway Information System (DGIS): User Interface Design,

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DoD) Research and Engineering (R&E) community requires rapid access to scientific and technical information relevant to their mission areas. The information they need is in a multiplicity of diverse databases maintained in the federal and commercial sectors. A tool being developed to satisfy these information requirements is the DoD Information Gateway System (DGIS). The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) is the program manager for the DGIS. A prototype version is now undergoing test and evaluation. The objective of the DGIS is to provide the DoD researcher with a single, easy-to-use interface for accessing, interrogating and post-processing information from the numerous databases relevant to their needs. To the user's mind, the DGIS transforms these resources into a single entity - a virtual database. DGIS includes a menu system as an option for handling information. The menu system guides the user through the paths of accessing and processing information via the DGIS. Development of this menu system is discussed in this paper. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA174150

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  • Alan D. Kuhn
  • Gladys A. Cotter

Organizations

  • Defense Technical Information Center

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  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Abstracts
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  • Communities
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Information Transfer
  • Language
  • Operating Systems
  • Prototypes
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Test And Evaluation
  • User Interface
  • User Interface Engineering

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  • Computer science

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