Automation of Dynamic Help for U. S. Army Installation-Level Software

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to determine the extent to which Dynamic Help specification can be automated, and to propose a cost-effective procedure for implementing Dynamic Help for the US Army's Installation Support Modules (ISM) programs. The proposed method decomposes the message into fixed structure sentences having variable slots to be filled with context-specific data. Each slot depends on only one or a few aspects of the context. It is concluded that Dynamic Help is greatly automatable, and a set of programmer's tools can be developed to apply the automation method to provide Dynamic Help messages for many of the Army's software packages

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA268430

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