Pygmalion at the interface
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 29 (7) , 599-604
- https://doi.org/10.1145/6138.6141
Abstract
Appropriate mnemonic feedback built into a natural-language interface can act as a teacher to help users acquire formal-language skills as they work, without a large initial investment of effort in a learning period.Keywords
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